A team of journalists accompanying the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on a special operation to clamp down on illegal mining activities has been involved in a serious accident in the Ashanti Region.
The incident, which left two of the journalists in critical condition, occurred at Afari, following a violent encounter with illegal miners near Obuasi.
Reports indicate that the convoy of the EPA team was initially attacked by a group of illegal miners at Dadwene, a community near Obuasi. The severity of the attack reportedly forced the EPA team and the accompanying media personnel to retreat.
The subsequent accident, which happened later at Afari, has left several people injured.
Among the journalists involved was Ibrahim Abubakar, the Ashanti Regional Correspondent of Media General, but he is fine.
Speaking to the news desk for an update, reporter William Evans-Nkum clarified the apparent geographical discrepancy between the site of the attack and the accident.
Speaking on the Ghana Tonight Show on TV3 Thursday, November 6, she said, “We thank God that we all have our lives now, it is just unfortunate that we have some injuries. The most critical one a broken thigh, which is one of the Joy TV cameramen. Your correspondent Abubarkar has some chest pains, and he is responding to treatment. Adom TV’s correspondent had a head injury; he is also responding to treatment. Then we have some EPA staff who were also involved in the accident; they are all responding to treatment. We have discussed it with the doctors and nurses in charge to pay special attention to them because we were on a national assignment before this unfortunate incident happened.”
