Players and some back room staff of Kumasi Asante Kotoko SC are reported to be involved in a gory accident at Nantia, about 300 meters to the main Nkawkaw bypass road.
The accident occurred around 21:45 GMT, according to eyewitnesses.
The team was returning to Kumasi after suffering a 1:0 defeat from Inter Allies FC in the Ghana Premier League mid-week fixture which was played in Tema on Wednesday.
The bus in which the players were traveling in, Kasapafmonline.com understands, run into a parked truck.
Three people including the Coach, Steven Pollack, Assistant Coah, Godwin Ablordey, and the driver were trapped in the mangled bus and took close to two hours for personnel of the Ghana Fire Service and the Police to cut the bus to rescue them.
The captain of the Porcupine Warriors, Amos Frimpong, Baba Mahama and the top rated defender, Ahmed Adams, this website is told, have sustained various degrees of injuries, especially on their forehead, with one official of the club feared dead.
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