Information reaching Adomonline.com suggests the incident occurred at Brohane junction in the Tain district of the Ahafo Region.

The supporters, numbering about 150, were said to be travelling for a party programme at Kabruno at Banda Central.

Reports indicate they were travelling in a sprinter bus and the KIA truck.

Witnesses explain the truck’s tyre burst, causing it to somersault and eventually throwing occupants into a nearby gutter.

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The driver of the sprinter bus, who was leading the journey, told Adom News he disembarked his passengers in order to convey the victims to the hospital.

They were conveyed to the Nsorkor Hospital but patients had to be administered treatment on the floor as the hospital run out of beds due to the large numbers.

Two persons are said to be in critical condition and have been referred to the Techiman Holy Family Hospital.

This follows a viral video which captured the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, ‘clashing’ with the soldiers.

Some reports claimed the soldiers were intimidating and preventing residents from registering.

However, GAF in a statement, which has dismissed Mr Nketia’s claims, explains they were in the area to ensure peace.

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The statement, signed by the Director of Public Relations, Colonel Eric Aggrey Quashie, added that their deployment followed a request by the Bono Regional Security Council.

Read the full statement below:

The threats emanated from an unidentified group in the area which is fiercely opposed to all government workers who are not natives of the district.

On Tuesday 14 March, a letter written by the group calling itself Concerned Youth of Banda said: “This is to inform all strangers working in this community/school that we are not ready to stay peacefully with you in this community. If you do not leave this district, then we cannot guarantee your safety here.

The letter continued that “What is happening to strangers in South Africa will happen to you or what happened in Faith School in 2016 will repeat itself. We cannot sit down for you to take our job opportunities from us.”

Schools and health facilities have been closed; whiles teachers and health workers have fled the town for safety following letters written by the group.

To demonstrate their innocence, the youth invoked curses on the faceless people behind the letter

A member of the Youth Committee, Tofak Williams told Adom News they have been forced to rain curses on them because their lives are at risk.

“We have nothing against anyone in this town and so we don’t know why some people should just write letters of threat to people working there. We don’t know them and so we have cursed them to die and not threaten our lives anymore” he said.

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Meanwhile, the Wenchi Divisional Police Commander, ACP Sebastian Atsu Wemegah, said police personnel have been deployed to Banda Ahenkro to avert any possible attacks.

SOURCE: Ghana/Adom News/Maame Esi Nyamekye Thompson