For the second time in 2025 Greater Accra Region leads the violent incidents count with 36 (23.8%) reported incidents. Ashanti Region follows with 31 (20.5%) incidents. In third position is the Central Region following with 17 (11.3%) incidents. Upper East Region recorded 15 (9.9%) incidents and Western region 14 incidents accounting for 9.3%. The remaining 10 regions recorded single digit incident between 9 and 1. The Savannah Region did not record any reported violent incident in the media space.
At the zonal level, the Coastal regions (Greater Accra, Central, Western and Volta) recorded the highest counts with 68 incidents representing 45%. The Middle zone regions (Ashanti, Eastern, Oti, Western North, Bono, Bono East and Ahafo) followed with 62 incidents representing 41%. The Northern regions (Upper East, Upper West, North East, Savannah and Northern) contributed 21 incidents representing 14%.
Ninety-five (95) injuries and seventy-four (74) deaths were recorded. The data shows that, violent incidents continue to affect more men than women and children combined. Gun, violence contributed the highest share of injuries i.e 38% followed by Physical and Economic violence which contributed 29% and 22% of injuries and respectively. On the death count, Gun violence again contributed 41 deaths representing 55% of all deaths reported compared to physical violence which contributed 29 (39%) of deaths. There were approximately 2 deaths for every violent incident in the middle zone.
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