Breaking News: Fear Grip Residents In Santa-Maria-Accra Over Underground Explosion
Residents in Santa Maria, particularly those leaving around the Anchor of Hope Preparation School area in the Ga Central Municipality in the Greater Accra have been gripped with fear and panic, following the underground explosion which wounded a 40-year- old woman, Madam Georgina Five who is selling groundnut in the area.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Residents in Santa Maria, particularly those leaving around the Anchor of Hope Preparation School area in the Ga Central Municipality in the Greater Accra have been gripped with fear and panic, following the underground explosion which wounded a 40-year- old woman, Madam Georgina Five who is selling groundnut in the area.
The heartbreaking incident which occurred around 2:5 PM on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, made a young woman completely lose his toes instantly on her left foot.
Narrating the story to Soireenews.com via a telephone call, the Assembly Member of Santa Maria Electoral Area in Accra, Nana Kwesi Boandwoh, confirmed the incident and states that the woman was currently reported to the treatment in the Ayaa Polyclinic.
Honorable Boandwoh stated that he has a distress call at about 2 pm that there was an explosion at a place called Anchor of Hope polling station in the Santa Maria Electoral Area in Accra and that he should come to the area for assistance.
He indicated that when he rushed to the scene of the incident he realized that there was something underground they suspected as dynamite has exploded.
And that he noted that there is a woman who sells groundnut and she was passing by she was called by someone to buy the groundnut and suddenly there was an explosion from the underground which virtually got she wounded.
"All the five toes on her left foot got destroyed instantly by the explosion and the blood oozing from the foot.
"So they have rushed her to Ayaa Polyclinic when l come to the scene with the BNI personnel. The Anyaa police officers also came to the scene to have a look at the explosion," the Assemblymember narrated.
He lamented that "We are confused about what had happened now because we don't even know what exploded from underground to wound the woman. So we are appealing to the security regulatory agencies and the key stakeholders to come to their aid.
"...Because we cannot just leave the issue like that to go and we don't know what would happen again in subsequent times," the Assemblyman stressed.
He allayed the fear of the residents in the area and assured them that the matter is under investigation to try to find out the true causes of the issue.
