Collapsed building kills 11-year-old girl at Techiman 

An 11-year-old-girl has been reported dead after a building collapsed on her at Techiman in the Bono East region.

According to reports, the incident happened after a heavy rain in the area. Brother of the deceased who was also in the building with her is currently receiving treatment at the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman.

NADMO coordinator at Techiman, Eric Asideu who confirmed the incident to Citi FM said, "the rain started around 8pm and ended this dawn between 3 am and 4 am, the report we had from the Assemblyman is that around 4 am the building collapsed and two people were in the room and were all affected, so they sent them to Holy Family Hospital and one passed on, the other one is receiving treatment currently.." 

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Collapsed school building kills two, six others injured

Collapsed new school building block for the Dzorwulu Primary and JHS also killed two people and injured six others earlier last month.

The timely intervention of firefighters and Police Officers saved more workers from further injuries.

The Senior Officer for the Urban Search Rescue Team at NADMO, Yaw Kiatchery told Citi FM that the entire structure will be pulled down to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.

“Six people were retrieved and sent to the hospital. The seventh one died on the way and the eighth one died here so looking at the structure and the cracks that have developed into the structure there is no way we can leave the structure standing.”

“It will become a death trap to any person who will be passing around the place so there is the need to pull down the structure and that is why we have taken a decision with the help of the Police officer and the MCE to pull down the structure and that is what we are doing.”