3 COPS PERISH (1c)

Story: Joe Okyere, Cape Coast

THREE policemen from the Komenda Police Station died on the spot when the taxi they were using for duty ran into a Nissan Patrol at Dominase on the Komenda Junction-Takoradi Road on Monday.
The deceased are Sergeant Richard Amoakwa, Lance Corporal Sampson Impraim and Constable Kwesi Kaakyire.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic on telephone, the Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Emmanuel Teye Okoso, said the accident occurred when the taxi, which was being driven by one of the policemen, in an attempt to avoid a tree that had fallen and blocked part of the road, ran into the oncoming Nissan Patrol.
Inspector Okoso said three of the occupants of the Nissan Patrol were also injured, adding that two of them were treated and discharged from the Kissi Health Centre, while the third person, Mr Stanley Apelepey, was rushed to the Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast and was now on admission.
Inspector Okoso said the Deputy Central Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Obodai, and the Regional Commander of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police Rose Bio Atenga, had visited the bereaved families and expressed their sympathies to them.
He said the bodies of the policemen had been deposited at the Police Hospital in Accra.