Seven persons lost their lives in a gory road accident on New  Year's eve at Abusakope in the Eastern Region while eighteen others sustained serious degrees of injuries.

The road carnage involved a Sprinter bus and a tipper truck loaded with sand.

According to reports from eyewitnesses at the scene of the accident, the Sprinter bus with registration number GN 8109-15 was heading to Ho from Accra and slammed into a stationary tipper truck that was packed on the shoulders of the road loaded with sand.

The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Akuse Government Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy.

While the injured are receiving treatment at the same hospital in Akuse while others are at the St Martin De-Pores Hospital at Agormanya all in the Eastern Region.