A bullet meant to disperse protestors at the Adentan-Madina highway has hit a mother and her 14-year-old son, Myjoyonline.com is learning.
According to an eyewitness, the mother and son were trying to avoid the chaos at the West African Senior High School (WASS) stretch of the highway when they were hit by the bullet.
They were at the SDA junction, metres away from the scene where riots broke out after a taxi driver knocked and killed a first-year student of WASS.
The young lady had gone to register for the Gold Track semester which is expected to begin on Saturday, November 10, according to reports.
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Residents blocked the road and set old tyres on fire to prevent drivers from using the road.
The accident sparked fresh outrage from exhausted residents whose calls for works to be completed on abandoned six footbridges on the highway, seem to have gone unheeded.
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So far, 195 lives have been claimed on the highway that has no road signs and functioning streetlights since it was constructed about a decade ago.
According to Emmanuel, the stray bullet is lodged in his nephew’s leg and the teenager is in great pain.
He said his sister and nephew were on their way home when the incident occurred.
Police stray bullet??
Is so then they need training in weaponry use immediately.
There hv been too many gun deaths since Nana Addo took charge and something needs to be done about this to stem it.
I drove on this highway a couple of days ago and remarked that the school children who were crossing the road were at a big risk of being killed anytime!!!!!
What’s stopping the completion of this foot bridge??
Lives especially those of our school children are worst at risk!!!!!!!
Action Now!!!!!
Hmm Ghana,unless someone died or get affected before we start to correct our mistakes…God pls come and help us