{"id":129006,"date":"2015-06-28T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=129006"},"modified":"2015-06-28T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T12:18:48","slug":"kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-after-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=129006","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi airport roundabout flooded after heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains in Kumasi on Saturday evening left some parts of the airport roundabout and surrounding areas flooded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129013\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-5.jpg\" alt=\"kumasi airport roundabout flooded (5)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Total filling station near the roundabout caused a lot of scare in the area as people stayed away from seeking shelter at the place for fear of a possible re-occurrence of the June 3 disaster which claimed over 150 lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129012\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-4.jpg\" alt=\"kumasi airport roundabout flooded (4)\" width=\"503\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-4.jpg 503w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-4-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rain which started around 7:30pm submerged people&#8217;s shops, container stores and some homes.<\/p>\n<p>The situation caused a lot of traffic in the Kumasi Metropolis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-129010\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-2.jpg\" alt=\"kumasi airport roundabout flooded (2)\" width=\"618\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Police quickly moved to the affected areas to control the traffic situation.<\/p>\n<p>At Anloga junction, fire service personnel quickly rushed there to drain the flood water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-129011\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-3.jpg\" alt=\"kumasi airport roundabout flooded (3)\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/kumasi-airport-roundabout-flooded-3-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some residents have attributed the flooding to shallow drains within the Kumasi metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rains in Kumasi on Saturday evening left some parts of the airport roundabout and surrounding areas flooded. A Total filling station near the roundabout caused a lot of scare in the area as people stayed away from seeking shelter at the place for fear of a possible re-occurrence of the June 3 disaster which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":129009,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-129006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129006","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}