The management of VIP JEOUN Transport Company Limited, in a press statement, has announced that two of their coaches were attacked by armed robbers in separate incidents on major highways in Ghana.
According to the management of VIP, one of the buses was attacked in the late hours of Wednesday, July 30, 2026, and another in the early hours of Thursday, July 31.
The VIP statement revealed that the first attack occurred at approximately 11:00 p.m. on the Accra-Kumasi Highway; armed robbers used a vehicle to block the highway and carried out a robbery operation.
Five people, including a driver and his mate, sustained gunshot injuries following the armed robbery attack on a VIP Jeoun coach.
The statement issued by management of VIP JEOUN Transport Company Limited read, “At 23:00 hours GMT, on the Accra-Kumasi Highway, a section between Apedwa Junction via Nkronso, Akooko and Akyem Asafo, armed robbers used a car to block the highway and engaged in banditry. Three coaches were caught up in the blockade. The robbers shot at one coach en route from Accra to Sunyani repeatedly, with the driver, mate, and three passengers sustaining injuries. The driver has since been transferred to the 37 Military Hospital. Police officers from Suhum, in the Eastern South Region, successfully repelled the robbers, cleared, and re-opened the highway”.
The Second Incident:
Armed robbers attacked another VIP JEOUN coach at Potrikrom, on the Kumasi to Sunyani Highway, at around 01:00 hours GMT, The robbers shot at and damaged the coach’s windshield, but the armed escort repelled the attack. No passenger suffered any injury. Again, a police patrol Team arrived at the scene. VIP JEOUN values the security of passengers and crew on board and are committed to ensuring hassle-free transportation”.
In other news, some months ago, ten passengers were killed following a collision between a VIP bus and a diesel trailer at Mile 44 near Suhum on the Accra–Kumasi Highway.
According to a news card shared by GHOne TV, it read, “10 killed in VIP bus and diesel trailer crash on Accra-Kumasi highway”.
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) station in Suhum Municipal revealed they received a distress call at exactly 4:24 am on April 13, 2026, with a seven-member rescue team immediately mobilised and dispatched to the scene, arriving within minutes to begin rescue operations.
The Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of the GNFS on Facebook on Monday, April 13, 2026, detailed that the bus was carrying 33 passengers at the time of the crash.
“The crash involved a VIP bus and a diesel trailer, reportedly caused by wrongful overtaking by the bus. There were 33 passengers on board, with 10 casualties (nine males and one female), though no one was trapped,” the Service confirmed.
Meanwhile, preliminary investigations suggest that wrongful overtaking by the VIP bus led to the collision.
See the statement below:
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