A 17-year-old student of Apersua Community Day Senior High School near Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern region died Thursday morning after a motorbike he was traveling on crashed near the campus.
The deceased Emmissah Bright was a first-year General Arts student.
He and his mate Ayer Theophilus, a Visual Arts student currently on admission at the Eastern Regional Hospital were on an Okada to school.
However, according to the rider Eliasu Baakie, the motorbike hit a bumpy portion of the Nkurakan to Huhunya road which is under construction right in front of the School and as a result lost control of the steering wheel and crashed.
The rider and pillion riders (students) sustained serious injuries.
The students were rushed to the Eastern Regional Hospital while the rider was sent to a health center in the community.
Unfortunately, Emmissah Bright was pronounced dead while Ayer Theophilus is responding to treatment.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Nkurakan chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, GNAT, Emmanuel Dzramado, and officials of the Ghana Education Service in the Regional Directorate visited the victims at the hospital.
The entire school was thrown into a state of mourning when the Headmaster of the school called an assembly to announce the unfortunate death of the student to the school.
The death of the 17-year-old student comes a few days after 18-year-old student of Oyoko Methodist Senior High School Roland Asare was stabbed to death in Koforidua.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
