Ghana bus crash: Toll rises to 71 dead, 13 seriously injured

''The toll in the deadliest road crash in Ghana in years rose to 71 dead and 13 seriously injured'', Bismark Owusu Fosu, medical director at Kintampo hospital, said on Thursday

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The accident happened overnight when a Metro Mass Transit coach heading to the northern town of Tamale from the second-largest city of Kumasi hit a cargo truck head-on 420 km (260 miles) north of the capital Accra.