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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Sun, 21 Nov 2009 06:52:36 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 11/21/2009 6:52:36 AM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 http://www.modernghana.com/news/250306/1/four-perish-in-a-car-crash-on-kumasi-bibiani-highw.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/250306/1/four-perish-in-a-car-crash-on-kumasi-bibiani-highw.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/250306/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 20 Nov 2009 09:58:29 +0100 0 Two persons lost their lives following sporadic firing of firearms by persons suspected to be landguards who descended on the Avenor suburb of Accra yesterday morning The suspected landguards were said to have been engaged by the Word Miracle Church International to forcefully eject encroachers on their piece of land Shattered glasses ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249667/1/horror-in-accra-church-landguard-butchered.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249667/1/horror-in-accra-church-landguard-butchered.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249667/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 17 Nov 2009 09:59:59 +0100 0 At least one person has been confirmed dead with several others injured at Avenor after gunmen attacked resident early MondayThe incident comes after a combined team of police and military officers last week drove out squatters in the areaDetails are sketchy but eyewitnesses have been struggling to link the incident to last week ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249477/1/shooting-at-avenor-1-person-killed.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249477/1/shooting-at-avenor-1-person-killed.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249477/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 10:10:42 +0100 0 The grisly murder of a famous business woman near Koforidua the gruesome beheading of a sixyear old boy near Sunyani and the gunning down of four armed robbers in Kumasi in a shootout with the police marked a weekend of blood and horror for some residents of those parts of the countryAt Abesim near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region h ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249451/1/bloody-weekend.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249451/1/bloody-weekend.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249451/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 16 Nov 2009 08:20:32 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/249073/1/dompoase-galamsey-victims-identified.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249073/1/dompoase-galamsey-victims-identified.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249073/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Nov 2009 11:49:32 +0100 0 The Western Regional Police Crime Officer Superintendent Victor Seth Agbetornyo has confirmed that thirteen women and two men died when a pit from which they were digging gold sand collapsed on one of the women who is on admission and responding to treatmentThe Superintendent Agebtornyo told Radio Ghana that the Police is doing its best to con ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249045/1/police-confirms-15-deaths-in-pit.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249045/1/police-confirms-15-deaths-in-pit.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249045/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Nov 2009 11:41:19 +0100 0 At least people working in an illegal gold mine in western Ghana were killed when the mine collapsed Thirteen of those who died in the privately owned gold mine in Dompoase town were women police told sourceThe accident which officials described as the countrys worst mining disaster happened on Tuesday when about people were working ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249044/1/women-die-in-mine-collapse.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249044/1/women-die-in-mine-collapse.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249044/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Nov 2009 11:41:17 +0100 0 Mass grief has gripped Dompoase near Wassa Akropong in the Western Region as a rescue team comprising the police and some galamsey operators continues to dig deep into the mud for more bodies following one of the biggest mining tragedies to hit Ghana The wailing i ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/248903/1/galamsey-horror-14-women-among-retrieved-bodies.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248903/1/galamsey-horror-14-women-among-retrieved-bodies.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248903/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 12 Nov 2009 16:17:42 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/248851/1/fifty-year-old-woman-electrocuted.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248851/1/fifty-year-old-woman-electrocuted.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248851/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 12 Nov 2009 11:59:18 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/247474/1/final-year-jhs-student-drowns-in-birim-river.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/247474/1/final-year-jhs-student-drowns-in-birim-river.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/247474/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 05 Nov 2009 13:43:55 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/247472/1/vehicle-runs-over-primary-school-girl-at-nsawam.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/247472/1/vehicle-runs-over-primary-school-girl-at-nsawam.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/247472/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 05 Nov 2009 13:43:55 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/246866/1/nsawam-assembly-finance-officer-dies-in-accident.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/246866/1/nsawam-assembly-finance-officer-dies-in-accident.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/246866/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:10 +0100 0 Makumah UW Nov GNA Two boys and a woman were killed when a truck loaded with sheanuts crashed into a parked urvan bus at Makumah in the Upper West Region on Friday a market day of the town The dead were Nuhu Adams four Matiliba Manu one and his mother Madam Abena According to an eyewitness account Adams crossed ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/246748/1/three-killed-in-motor-accident-at-makumah.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/246748/1/three-killed-in-motor-accident-at-makumah.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/246748/1/#showcomments2 Mon, 01 Nov 2009 19:30:28 +0100 0 It was all tears and sorrow at Olebu near Ablekuma a suburb of Accra on Tuesday night when two little boys who were sleeping in a kiosk were burnt beyond recognition The charred and badly disfigured bodies of the kids Isaac Tetteh and Michael Tetteh were scattered all over the accident scene at the time of DAILY GUIDEs visit ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/246182/1/horror-2-kids-burn-to-ashes.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/246182/1/horror-2-kids-burn-to-ashes.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/246182/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 29 Oct 2009 10:29:38 +0100 0 One person died during a shootout over a land dispute which occurred at Atwima Koforidua in the Ashanti Region last SaturdaySeven others including an yearold woman who was identified as Maame Ntoaduru and one Diana sustained various degrees of injury and were treated at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital KATH and discharged ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/245730/1/one-person-killed-in-shoot-out-over-land.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245730/1/one-person-killed-in-shoot-out-over-land.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245730/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 26 Oct 2009 16:09:38 +0100 0 Koloenu VR Oct GNA Two people lost their lives on Friday morning when a Hyundai Mini bus on which they were travelling from Kpeve in the South Dayi District to Hohoe veered off the road and somersaulted between Koloenu and Golokwati They were Winfred Asoku and Dora Adjale Prince Edzah driver of the vehicle and five passen ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/245337/1/two-people-perish-in-motor-accident.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245337/1/two-people-perish-in-motor-accident.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245337/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 23 Oct 2009 23:17:34 +0100 0 The recurrent boat tragedy on the Volta Lake has struck again at Wusuta in the Kpando District in the Volta Region with about people feared deadThe latest disaster occurred between WusutaTornu and the Afram Plains Monday and eyewitnesses said the casualty rate ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/244852/1/disaster-on-volta-lake.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244852/1/disaster-on-volta-lake.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244852/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 21 Oct 2009 20:24:39 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/244804/1/motor-accidents-our-woe-for-years-to-come.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244804/1/motor-accidents-our-woe-for-years-to-come.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244804/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 21 Oct 2009 15:21:09 +0100 0 At least people were feared drowned last Sunday when two boats capsized on the Volta Lake during a storm The dead were mostly women and childrenFourteen other children and three adults including a pregnant woman were rescued and have been admitted to the Anfoega Catholic Hospital in the North Dayi district One of the boats co ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/244726/1/another-tragedy-on-volta-lake.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244726/1/another-tragedy-on-volta-lake.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244726/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 21 Oct 2009 09:02:06 +0100 0 Kansakrom Ash Oct GNA Four people including the driver of an Urvan bus died when an articulated truck run over them as they were getting on board the vehicle The bodies of the deceased yet to be identified have been deposited at the Bibiani Government Hospital in the Western RegionNine others who sustained injuries are on a ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/244718/1/driver-four-others-die-in-an-accident.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244718/1/driver-four-others-die-in-an-accident.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244718/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 21 Oct 2009 00:45:45 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/244621/1/two-persons-die-in-a-pit-while-attempting-to-rescu.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244621/1/two-persons-die-in-a-pit-while-attempting-to-rescu.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244621/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 20 Oct 2009 14:23:47 +0100 0 TWENTYTWOyearold aka Vision the remedial student of Power College in Ho who was arrested as the prime suspect in the murder of yearold student Annie Mensah has confessed that he was actually at the scene before the murder He further claimed that he has been in an intimate relationship with the deceased for the past month before he ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/244606/1/murdered-students-boyfriend-confesses.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244606/1/murdered-students-boyfriend-confesses.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244606/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 20 Oct 2009 11:44:29 +0100 0 A nineyearold boy was crushed to death in a stampede on Friday night when he fell from a truck fully loaded with jubilant youth who were celebrating Ghanas victory in the FlFA Under World Cup Identified only as Kobby the boy is said to have fallen from the side of the vehicle where he had perched with other in a procession of vehicles a ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/244467/1/satellites-victory-boy-celebrates-to-death.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244467/1/satellites-victory-boy-celebrates-to-death.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244467/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 19 Oct 2009 11:37:21 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/244026/1/student-gunned-down.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244026/1/student-gunned-down.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244026/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 16 Oct 2009 11:21:06 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/243889/1/remedial-student-shot-dead.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/243889/1/remedial-student-shot-dead.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/243889/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 15 Oct 2009 18:14:14 +0100 0 httpnewsmyjoyonlinecomnewsaudioGhostly punchesmp Copyright myjoyonlinePersonnel of the Ghana Fire Service have aborted a rescue mission for two bodies said to have drowned mysteriously in a well in Akrodie in the Brong Ahafo RegionThe two middle aged men allegedly drowned in an attempt to rescue a dog whic ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/243774/1/ghostly-punches-scatter-rescue-mission.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/243774/1/ghostly-punches-scatter-rescue-mission.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/243774/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 15 Oct 2009 09:16:34 +0100 0 The twin Accra suburbs of Nima and Mamobi are in a state of mourning following the drowning of kids from the areas on Sunday a rare tragedy which many find difficult to come to terms with The children some of them as young as had trooped to the part of the Osu beach facing the former Hearts of Oak training ground otherwise called Bo ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/243339/1/13-kids-drown-at-bola-beach.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/243339/1/13-kids-drown-at-bola-beach.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/243339/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:36 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/243264/1/accident-claims-five-lives-in-obuasi3-others-in-cr.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/243264/1/accident-claims-five-lives-in-obuasi3-others-in-cr.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/243264/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 12 Oct 2009 19:14:43 +0100 0 FOUR PERSONS including two females were killed on the spot with three others sustaining various degrees of injury when an uncompleted storey building under which they were plying their trade abruptly caved in on them at Zenu a suburb of Ashaiman The incident which occurred last Friday at about am threw the whole of Zenu into anxiety an ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/242935/1/4-killed-in-collapsed-building.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/242935/1/4-killed-in-collapsed-building.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/242935/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 12 Oct 2009 11:28:58 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/242807/1/four-dead-as-building-collapses-on-them-at-ashaima.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/242807/1/four-dead-as-building-collapses-on-them-at-ashaima.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/242807/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 10 Oct 2009 11:13:16 +0100 0