{"id":129083,"date":"2015-06-28T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=129083"},"modified":"2015-06-28T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T14:15:21","slug":"kumasi-floods-man-found-dead-in-a-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=129083","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi floods: Man found dead in a drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man believed to be in his 50&#8217;s was found dead in a drain on Sunday morning at Kejetia-Dr. Mensah after Saturday&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/kumasi-flood-man-found-dead-in-gutter\" target=\"_blank\">heavy downpour<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that flooded parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police could not readily establish the cause of the death but preliminary investigation has attributed it to the floods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to some relatives of the deceased, the deceased is from Tongo in the Upper East region and only came to Kumasi over the weekend to visit a sick brother at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They suspect that as a &#8216;first time&#8217; visitorin Kumasi, he could not find his way around Kejetia in the rain and is believed to have fallen into the drain\u00a0and drowned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The body has been deposited at the KATH morgue for further investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, some angry youth in Aboabo, the major town affected by yesterday&#8217;s flood protested against the MCE and city authorities blaming them of negligence and indifferent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129086\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/youth-burning-tyres-in-kumasi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-129086 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/youth-burning-tyres-in-kumasi.jpg\" alt=\"kr\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/youth-burning-tyres-in-kumasi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/youth-burning-tyres-in-kumasi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">kr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youth burnt tyres, chanted songs, blocked roads and prevented motorists from using the roads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They demanded that a bridge connecting the community to the central business district be destroyed or reconstructed to prevent floods in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Police however described their actions as &#8220;illegal&#8221; but controlled the situation and appealed to the youth to explore the right channels to have their grievances\u00a0addressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Eliasu Buyadoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man believed to be in his 50&#8217;s was found dead in a drain on Sunday morning at Kejetia-Dr. Mensah after Saturday&#8217;s heavy downpour that flooded parts of the city. Police could not readily establish the cause of the death but preliminary investigation has attributed it to the floods. 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