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  State-owned ambulance conveying victims of the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi was involved in car crash, killing the driver in the process. The ambulance with registration number GV 375-12 was carrying the victims in critical condition to the hospital when the accident occurred in a farming community called Gwenewoho. Eyewitnesses told mynewsgh.com that the accident occurred Tuesday morning around 4 am.

Seventeen persons are confirmed dead at the Kintampo Waterfalls in the Brong Ahafo region after trees crashed on them following a heavy storm on Sunday. Eyewitnesses say the heavy trees fell from the top of the waterfalls and landed on the people, mostly students who had gone to swim.  Officials of the Ghana National Fire Service and the Police including other disaster management officials have been to the disaster scene in a rescue effort.  A huge tree fell at the top when the rains began and crashed the revelers,” an eyewitness told Starr News. “So far we have counted 16 people.”