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Tema tollbooth crash: Traumatised staff resume toll collection after 4-hour break
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Tema tollbooth crash: Traumatised staff resume toll collection after 4-hour break

Toll collection at the Accra-bound side of the Tema motorway has resumed, almost four hours after traumatised staff suspended collection after a tipper truck crashed into the tollbooth. Drivers who ply the stretch were allowed to move free of charge after the incident. Five persons were left with serious injuries after the crash on Monday morning, July 12, 2021. A cleaner who has speech and hearing impairment, whose name was only given as Mr. Koomson, was left with severe injuries to his legs and hand. Two other victims, who were occupying a salon car that was hit by the tipper truck before it crashed into the tollbooth, were also severely injured. The driver of the truck, who was earlier arrested by the police, is also said to have sustained some inj...
Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 100, injuring thousands
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Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 100, injuring thousands

Lebanese rescue workers dug through rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officials expected to rise. Tuesday's blast at port warehouses storing highly explosive material was the most powerful in years in Beirut, already reeling from an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus infections. President Michel Aoun said that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, used in fertilisers and bombs, had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures, and he said that was "unacceptable". He called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Officials did not say what caused the blaze that set off the blast. A security source and media said it was started by we...