Three women on Saturday lost their lives when a 33-seater Benz bus on which they were travelling crashed into two taxis and somersaulted at the foot of Galenkui Hill in Ho.

The three were members of the Apostle Revelation Society (ARS) Church choir, Ho Mawuli-Gate.

Thirty other members of the choir on the bus sustained various degrees of injuries and are receiving treatment at the Volta Regional Hospital.

The choir was said to be returning from a funeral at Saviefe-Agorkpo, in the Ho-West District

Eyewitnesses told the Ghana News Agency that the brakes of the Benz bus appeared to have failed whiles descending the Hill.