{"id":123488,"date":"2015-06-10T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T07:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=123488"},"modified":"2015-06-10T09:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:26:06","slug":"memorial-service-for-flood-and-goil-fire-victims-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=123488","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service for flood and Goil fire victims today"},"content":{"rendered":"

A National Memorial Service for victims of the June 3 flood and fire disaster\u00a0will be held at the forecourt of the State House today [Wednesday] June 10,\u00a02015 at 8.30am.<\/p>\n

President Mahama announced a 3-days national mourning period in an address after a National Crisis meeting of the National Security Council.
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About\u00a0150 people died<\/a><\/strong><\/span> last Wednesday after torrential rains flooded the capital city Accra and in a inferno which razed the GOIL fire station at the Kwame Nkrumah circle to the ground.<\/p>\n

The loss has devastated Ghanaians some of whom lost relatives and friends in the disaster, which has been described as one of the saddest in Ghana’s history<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The service at the forecourt of the state house ends the three days of national mourning declared by the President.<\/p>\n

A statement released earlier by the Ministry of Communications said the memorial service\u00a0will be inter-faith, inter-denominational, and will involve all Ghanaians.<\/p>\n

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The statement also confirmed the change of venue from the precincts of the\u00a0GOIL Service Station where the fire disaster occurred to the forecourt of the\u00a0State House.<\/p>\n

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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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A National Memorial Service for victims of the June 3 flood and fire disaster\u00a0will be held at the forecourt of the State House today [Wednesday] June 10,\u00a02015 at 8.30am. President Mahama announced a 3-days national mourning period in an address after a National Crisis meeting of the National Security Council. About\u00a0150 people died last Wednesday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":122783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-123488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}