One more person has been confirmed dead following the dynamite explosion in Nsawam.
This brings to two, the number of confirmed deaths, the Nsawam Government Hospital confirmed to Citi News.
The latest death resulted from an accident involving a truck that was conveying injured persons.
On Wednesday December 23, 2015, dynamites exploded at a quarry site in Piabo in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality of the Eastern Region killing one person and injuring 12 other persons.
Security bodies investigating circumstances surrounding the location of these dynamites in the area are yet to establish the cause of the explosion.
The Eastern Regional Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Ransford Owusu Boakye, disclosed to Citi News following the organisation’s damage assessment process that, 1,236 people had been rendered homeless with over 200 homes, 3 factories, 2 mosques and one school (St. Martin’s Senior High School) collapsed.
He intimated that the organisation would provide “roofing sheets, wood, clothing and food items” but insisted that they could only provide relief services to “the most vulnerable ones”; victims who could not take care of themselves without help from central government.
Though “safe havens” had been created by NADMO to accommodate the displaced residents and facilitate the supply of relief services, many victims had refused to take up the refuge.
This according to Ransford Owusu Boakye was hampering the supply of relief services which is expected to start within the first week of January 2016.
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By: Sixtus Dong Ullo/citifmonline.com/Ghana