The Ministry of Youth and Sports has expressed its condolences to the families and team of the six young footballers who were killed in a car accident in the Offinso Municipality of the Ashanti region.
The six young footballers aged between 12 and 16, and members of a youth football team died on the spot when a KIA Pregio vehicle they were traveling in with other 30 members of the team veered off the road and fell into a river on Saturday, September 19.
Four of the accident victims were rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital while 26 others who sustained various degrees of injuries were admitted at St. Patrick Hospital at Offinso.
The team was reportedly returning to their base from Afrancho after they went to register for a juvenile league at the district level. The driver of the vehicle is said to have lost control and veered off the road stumbling into a river.
The bodies of the deceased, the Divisional Command for Offinso MTTD revealed, were deposited at the St. Patrick Hospital Morgue.
In a statement commiserating with the families and the team, the Ministry of Youth and Sports gave assurance of measures that would be taken to prevent similar occurrence in the future.
“The Ministry on behalf of the Hon. Minister, Isaac Kwame Asiamah expresses its condolences to the bereaved families and the entire football fraternity. The Ministry will like to assure all that, appropriate measures would be taken to avert future occurrence,” the Ministry stated in a statement dated September 20, 2020.
Several incidents of road accidents involving vehicles have been reported in less than a week including the gory accident at Kyekyewere near Suhum in the Eastern Region which claimed 14 lives.
At least, four different incidents of road accidents involving vehicles were recorded on Saturday, September 19 including the crashing of the police vehicle in Walewale on the Bolgatanga-Tamale road which claimed the life of an officer.
