EXTREMELY DISTURBING PHOTOS: Train kills man at Kojokrom

It was a very pathetic and heart wrenching scene at Kojokrom on Tuesday night, February 21, 2017 when a man believed to be in his 50s was killed and crushed into pieces by a Train at a spot near the newly constructed Railway Terminal.

Bewildered eye witnesses tell YOURS IN THE INDEFATIGABLE SERVICE OF GHANA, NHYIRABA PAA KWESI SIMPSON the deceased was among a group of persons suspected to be alcoholics and Wee smokers who normally gather around the newly constructed Terminal at night.

Luck eluded the deceased when he could not run to safety as a Manganese Train from Takoradi to Nsuta knocked him, mutilating his body with the intestines gushing out at around 10:30pm. Personnel from the Ghana Ambulance Service were quickly called to the scene but the victim had already given up the ghost before their arrival.

He has been identified as Kweku, a resident of Essikado with wife and children. One of his daughters who rushed to the scene soon after the incident reportedly collapsed upon seeing her father’s mutilated body.

The body has since been conveyed to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital Morgue.

***Very disturbing pictures, readers’ discretion is sternly advised;

Author: Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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