It was a very pathetic and heart wrenching scene at Kojokrom on Tuesday night, February 21, 2017 when a man believed to be in his 50s was killed and crushed into pieces by a Train at a spot near the newly constructed Railway Terminal
Bewildered eye witnesses tell YOURS IN THE INDEFATIGABLE SERVICE OF GHANA, NHYIRABA PAA KWESI SIMPSON the deceased was among a group of persons suspected to be alcoholics and Wee smokers who normally gather around the newly constructed Terminal at night
Luck eluded the deceased when he could not run to safety as a Manganese Train from Takoradi to Nsuta knocked him, mutilating his body with the intestines gushing out at around 10:30pm
Personnel from the Ghana Ambulance Service were quickly called to the scene but the victim had already given up the ghost before their arrival
He has been identified as Kweku, a resident of Essikado with wife and children
One of his daughters who rushed to the scene soon after the incident reportedly collapsed upon seeing her father’s mutilated body
The body has since been conveyed to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital Morgue.
Source: GhanaWeb
