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Updated: Explosion kills 13, flattens village in Ghana mining region

Ghana Apiate blast

Updated: 10am, 22nd January (AEDT)Accra, GhanaReuters At least 13 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana detonated, flattening a rural community, the police said on Friday. Smouldering timber and torn-up sheet metal marked where hundreds of houses had stood in Apiate, a settlement about […]