The accident, according to eyewitnesses, occurred when a Yutong mini bus with registration number GR-9895-N, carrying 19 passengers drove into an articulated truck parked by the Yikurugu stretch of the road in the Bawku West district.

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The Yutong minibus was travelling from Bolgatanga to Bawku.

The dead include five males and two females and a 2-year-old girl.

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Four others who sustained various degrees of injury were transported to the Zebilla District and the Bawku Presbyterian hospitals for treatment.