A prompt police intervention on Tuesday prevented what could have been a nasty clash between drivers and hawkers at the renovated lorry park of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra.

Police from the Kaneshie District and the Striking Force responded when they were called in to avert further clashes.

Two people sustained injuries during the fighting, which followed a directive by the Accra Metropolitan Authority (AMA) to the drivers to take charge of the park at the end of the renovation works.

Eyewitnesses told the Ghana News Agency that the hawkers, who had occupied almost the entire station during the renovation, rejected demands by the drivers to remove their wares for them to demarcate the station.

They said the drivers then started destroying the tables and wares of the hawkers and beat up those who resisted.

The hawkers staged a demonstration against the drivers accusing them of trying to deny them their livelihood.