{"id":126838,"date":"2015-06-21T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126838"},"modified":"2015-06-21T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:57:09","slug":"five-storey-building-collapses-in-apatrapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126838","title":{"rendered":"Five-storey building collapses in Apatrapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A five-storey building has collapsed at Apatrapa near Kumasi in Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126842\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ao29lMJiwo9J47HSAGzZ0XSUXizvGqmcJS1IIkeFqZy1.jpg\" alt=\"Ao29lMJiwo9J47HSAGzZ0XSUXizvGqmcJS1IIkeFqZy1\" width=\"362\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ao29lMJiwo9J47HSAGzZ0XSUXizvGqmcJS1IIkeFqZy1.jpg 362w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ao29lMJiwo9J47HSAGzZ0XSUXizvGqmcJS1IIkeFqZy1-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how many people were in the building at the time of the collapse but there are fears\u00a0that some people are trapped under the debris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-126841\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alpskj4766Vi96pQ-Us43EFkIeBXSK1yE5v1jtlrvu1J.jpg\" alt=\"Alpskj4766Vi96pQ-Us43EFkIeBXSK1yE5v1jtlrvu1J\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alpskj4766Vi96pQ-Us43EFkIeBXSK1yE5v1jtlrvu1J.jpg 440w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alpskj4766Vi96pQ-Us43EFkIeBXSK1yE5v1jtlrvu1J-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Building collapses not a rare thing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There have been several building collapses in recent years, often attributed to poor contsruction work on these structures.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/06\/building-collapses-kills-shs-student\/#sthash.v2LYJzM2.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">a 22-year-old student<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the Nyankumasi Ahenkro Senior High School in the Assin South District,\u00a0was killed after the building in which she was sleeping collapsed on her following a heavy downpour.<\/p>\n<p>Another person died in December 2014 when a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/07\/collapsed-building-update-one-person-dead\/#sthash.LOQhgBqJ.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">restaurant under construction collapsed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at Cantonments in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s almost three years since the Melcom shop at Achimota in Accra collapsed, claiming the lives of about 14 people and injuring several others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A five-storey building has collapsed at Apatrapa near Kumasi in Ashanti Region. It is unclear how many people were in the building at the time of the collapse but there are fears\u00a0that some people are trapped under the debris. Building collapses not a rare thing There have been several building collapses in recent years, often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":126842,"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-126838","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\/126838","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=126838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}