Six persons have been confirmed dead in an accident, which occurred at Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, August 3.
The accident, which involved a Ford bus with registration number GS 3600-12, with passengers on board, was heading towards Kumasi from the Sunyani highway.
The bus was said to have suffered a break failure and crashed into another bus of the Martyrs of Uganda Preparatory School, which was heading towards Abuakwa to pick up school pupils.
A source at the Abuakwa Police Station told the GNA that the school bus was empty at the time of the accident.
Two passengers in the Ford bus, including the conductor, died on the spot.
According to the Police, scores of other injured passengers were rushed to the Abuakwa Polyclinic where four of them died on arrival.
The source said the remaining passengers are receiving treatment while the rest of the dead have been deposited at the morgue for autopsy. Police had since commenced investigations into the accident.