Truck was delivering explosives to gold mine run by Toronto-based company, police sayAt least 13 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana detonated Thursday, flattening a rural community, police said.
"We've seen damage to lives and property here that is just indescribable," said Daniel Adu-Gyamfi, a student from a nearby mining college who came to volunteer with the response team.Smoldering timber and torn sheet metal mark where hundreds of houses once stood in Apiate, a settlement about 200 kilometres west of Accra, the capital of Ghana. The rural community was flattened by an explosion Thursday that killed at least 13 people.
Kinross said it planned to provide support to the response efforts and relief items to those affected. Maxam could not be reached for comment. He said police are treating the site as a crime scene while they investigate, but did not provided further details.There was a pause between the collision and the explosion, which gave the driver time to warn the community of the danger, said Ofori.It was not immediately clear what caused the blast. Police said a motorcycle crashed into a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine, then caught fire. A government statement suggested a roadside power transformer could have played a role.
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Pretty sure that gold mining companies can just poison & kill people, destroy rivers, pollute vast areas with impunity. I think it’s some kind of international law.
rettiwt_Arsh So very sad!
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How many people were killed, CBC?
How many died Cbc
was he vaccinated? Cause we all know that covid could have sparked the explosion of cases in that community.
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