At least 19 people were killed when a truck collided head-on with a bus in Ghana's Ashanti region early Monday.

"All passengers on board the Sprinter bus, two drivers, and their mates were rushed to the St. Patrick's Hospital at a community in the Ashanti region, where 17 were pronounced dead, and two died later on admission early Tuesday," said Emmanuel Adu Boahen, the Ashanti Regional Commander of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department.