Many persons are feared dead, with others injured, in a gory accident at Soko in the Afigya Kwabere North District of the Ashanti Region.

The accident, which is said to have occurred on Monday, June 7, was a head-on collision between a Sprinter bus with registration number GT 4013-14 from Kumasi and a tipper truck with registration number WR 1653-A.

The driver of the tipper truck escaped unhurt but the mate is said to have hit his head on the road dying on the spot.

Also, the driver and mate of the sprinter bus together with other passengers are feared dead as the bus had most of its passengers affected.

Meanwhile, the injured persons are said to be on admission at the St Patrick Government Hospital in the Offinso South Municipality.