Ghanaian juvenile side Manso Soccer Babies were involved in a motor accident on Saturday after the rickshaw 'aboboyaa' they were travelling in for a league match collided with a vehicle, leaving several players seriously injured.
The rickshaw, who is also known locally as 'Adeideita', collided with an oncoming vehicle as the team was travelling from Kumasi to play a league match at Atwima Bebu.
(Pictures of the accident are too graphic to show and Ghanasoccernet.com has taken to decision not to display such graphic content on the website.)
Players and officials of the team, packed in the rickshaw have been rushed to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for immediate medical attention with various degrees of injuries with some serious after the accident occured at Bebu.
Relatives of the young players and worried football fans are trooping to the hospital to ascertain the injuries suffefred by the young players who are aspiring to the world class players.
This is the latest of the such accidents involivng young Ghanaian footballers being transported in rickety vehicles for league matches in the Ashanti Region.
At least six teenage footballers were killed and 30 others injured in a road accident in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region in September.
Edmund Nyamekye, commander of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department, told the media that four of the injured had been rushed to hospital and were in critical condition.
The accident occurred when the footballers aged 12-15 were on their way back from Afrancho, a community in the Ashanti region, the commander said.