About five persons are feared dead in an accident that occurred on the Ablekuma-Awoshie Highway in the Greater Accra region.

Five others including the driver have also sustained varying degrees of injury.

The accident occurred on Saturday dawn, a few metres from the Anyaa market. It involved a Sprinter bus with registration number GB 8896-21 and a pick-up.

An eyewitness told Adom News’ Aisha Ibrahim who was at the scene that, the Sprinter was conveying passengers from Ablekuma to Lapaz.

He said the driver crashed into the stationary pickup which was faulty trapping passengers in the commercial vehicle.

Bystanders, with the help of the police, rescued some of the victims from the mangled vehicle who were rushed to the hospital.