Police justify mass burial of accident victims

Police in Kintampo have justified a decision by the Kintampo district hospital to organise a mass burial for the victims of the Techiman – kintampo road accident which claimed about 60 lives last Friday.

The decision which was taken in consultation with the relevant stakeholders saw 36 out of the 56 victims of Friday's fatal accident at Amoma Nkwanta in the Kintampo South District of the Bono East Region buried in a mass grave at Jema.

Speaking to Citi news on Monday, the Kintampo South District Police Commander, DSP Ofori Boateng said the burial was necessary because the victims were burnt beyond recognition.

According to him, due process were followed before the victims were buried. “It was an agreement among the relatives and the stakeholders in consultation with the environmental health officers of the district…….. An announcement was made that anybody who boarded the bus from Garu to contact us, the same thing was do up there in Garu”, he said.