AMMA TAKES OVER ASAWASE COMMUNITY CENTRE AS VICTIMS ARE BURIED

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

This was after each of the bodies had been identified by the respective families yesterday after an examination of the bodies by Pathologists from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. 

Following this, death and burial certificates were issued for the burial of the bodies according to the tenets of the Islamic faith. Speaking to Ashanti Today, the Asokore Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, Nurudeen Hamidan, refuted reports that the dead were given a mass burial saying that the bereaved families organized the burial. 

The six surviving victims of the disaster are responding to treatment at the Manhyia Government Hospital in Kumasi. 

Meanwhile, the Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly has taken over management of the Asawase Community Centre with immediate effect. Until now, the social centre was being run by the leadership of the Asawase community since the facility was constructed as part of the Asawase Estate. 

In a related development, at its emergency meeting held yesterday, the Asokore Mampong Municipal Security Council asked the security agencies, especially the BNI to conduct full scale investigations to unravel all circumstances
surrounding the incident and related matters including the actual organizers of the musical concert show. The objective mainly is to avert a recurrence of such disaster in the future.

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