TRAGEDY AT JASIKAN (1b)

Five people including two English tutors of Jasikan College of Education have been killed at Jasikan in a tragic motor accident.
Four of the victims died on the spot when a Benz cargo truck crashed into a taxi in Jasikan.
The cargo truck, with registration number AS 3365 Z and driven by Adams Sibela, was said to be carrying building materials from Accra to Wulensi in the Northern Region, while the Opel Kadet taxi, with registration number GW 8774 R, was heading towards Hohoe when they collided, killing the four on the spot.
The taxi driver, Kele Cudjoe, who was referred to the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho for treatment, died on arrival at the hospital, while Adams and his mate escaped unhurt.
When the news spread in Hohoe that the dead included Paul Atsisey, 43, and Ben Sagba, 53, both tutors of English at the Jasikan College, the whole college was thrown into a state of mourning.
The Daily Graphic gathered that the tutors were travelling to Hohoe to submit scripts of the Untrained Teachers Diploma in Basic Education (UTDBE) exams which they had marked. The others who died on the spot included Janet Afezuke, 43, a trader, and a five-year-old unidentified girl.
The sole survivor, a female whose name was not immediately known, was seriously injured and is on admission at the Jasikan District Hospital.
According to an eyewitness, Adams, on reaching a spot just opposite the Jasikan District Hospital at 10.00 a.m., ran into the taxi cab when he attempted to overtake an articulated truck. Meanwhile, the taxi driver had parked off the road, having sensed danger, in his attempt to save the situation.
Adams lost control of the situation and crashed his vehicle into the taxi, killing the passengers in it.
When the Daily Graphic visited the college, both teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as the students, were mourning the tutors .
Efforts are being made to tow the vehicles to the Jasikan Police Station as investigations continue.