Dozens of people are reported dead in a dynamite explosion in a popular mining community in Ghana.
The explosion occurred at Apiatse, a suburb of Bogoso Township in the Prestea Huni-Vally Municipality in the country’s mineral rich Western Region.
Africa Express Online Western Regional correspondent who was at the scene fifteen minutes after the incident reported over 16 deaths.
He also recorded more than ninety injured persons in less that an hour search.
Death toll and related casualties from the explosion according to reports could be more alarming than anticipated.
Injured victims were rushed to the municipality and the regional hospitals.
Victims of the explosion included passengers and commuters plying the Bogoso-Kumasi Highway at the time of the explosion.
The accident occurred this afternoon between 12:50pm and 1: 00pm local time.
The disaster has turned the entire community into rubble as a result of the magnitude of the explosion.
Our correspondent, Jonh Amarquaye said the explosion occurred after a tricycle crushed into a truck transporting the dynamite.
The exact mining site the dynamite was been transported to was yet to be identified.
The truck carrying the dynamite is still buried at the spot of explosion in a wild gulley created by the dynamite explosion in the middle of the highway.
Heavy security operatives and rescue workers have been deployed to the damaged town.
Apiatse, a mining community has close to thousand residents.
The town is located just some five minutes drive from the municipal capital, Bogoso.
Authorities were yet to disclose the exact number people who have died in the disaster at the time of filing this report.
Rescue workers were still busy searching for possible survivors and bodies.
Bogoso and surrounding communities in busy with mining related activities high deposits of gold.
