4 killed in Star Oil fuel tanker accident at Asukawkaw

It has been confirmed that four females, including a seven-year-old girl died instantly when a Star Oil fuel tanker drove over them at Asukawkaw in the Krachi-East Municipality in the Oti Region on Thursday [August 14, 2025]. 

Graphic Online’s Emmanuel Modey reports that the fuel tanker, with registration number GN 1531-23 that was heading towards Dambai to discharge fuel.

It reportedly had a brake failure after descending the Asukawkaw mountain, and therefore could not turn on a sharp curve towards the Kpando-Worawora-Dambai highway.

It run into eight people, all market women who were waiting to board vehicles to to travel back home after the day’s activities. 

In the process, the tanker also run into a stationary truck belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana ( ECG) vehicle with registration number GT 627-21, mangling it beyond repairs and injuring the driver who was in the vehicle waiting for colleagues who had gone into town on their work rounds. 

The tanker also destroyed a mosque and managed to come to a halt after hitting the Evangelical Presbyterian Church building in the area. 

The drivers of the tanker and the ECG truck and the eight other injured women were taken to the hospital for treatment.

The bodies of the four deceased yet to be identified have been deposited at the Worawora hospital morgue. 

According to the Oti Regional Commander of the Ghana National Fire Service ( GNFS) Assistant Chief Fire Officer, Prince Billy Anaglate they received a distress call about the accident at 12:30 pm. 

He said the security personnel had to be on standby throughout the night to prevent the incensed youth who were on rampage from completely destroying the fuel tanker.

Mr Billy Anaglate the Krachi-East Municipal Chief Executive, Sarfo Nketia and the chief of Asukawkaw, Nana Odam Gyamfy III intervened to calm the youth.