Nine victims of Sallahfest disaster at Asawase in Kumasi buried

All nine persons who died last Wednesday following a stampede at the Asawase Community Centre in the Asokore Mampong Municipality of Ashanti have been buried. 

This was after each of the bodies were identified by their families after examinations by pathologists from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. 

The Asokore Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, Hamidan Nurideen, refuted reports that the victims were given mass burial. 

Their burial Thursday is in line with the tenets of the Islamic faith. The six surviving victims are responding to medical treatment. 

Meanwhile, the Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly has taken over the management of the Asawase Community Centre with immediate effect.  

The community Centre was built as part of the Asawase Estate.

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