{"id":179706,"date":"2016-01-06T23:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T23:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179706"},"modified":"2016-01-06T23:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T23:47:40","slug":"fire-consumes-kumasi-central-market-for-the-umpteenth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=179706","title":{"rendered":"Fire consumes Kumasi Central Market for the umpteenth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about the fourth time in one year, wild fire has swept through parts of the Kumasi Central Market in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 live birds are reported to have been burnt to death and hundreds of shops destroyed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179711\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/93451e6f7bc3a95360e16b300d370444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-179711 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/93451e6f7bc3a95360e16b300d370444.jpg\" alt=\"93451e6f7bc3a95360e16b300d370444\" width=\"540\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parts of the market in flames<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, the fire started around 10pm in the yam market before spreading to other parts.<\/p>\n<p>The inferno according to the eyewitnesses has reached uncontrollable levels with fire fighters struggling to bring it under control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/61d12ab56c725b4a42f8a6b3f0c22b701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-179718 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/61d12ab56c725b4a42f8a6b3f0c22b701.jpg\" alt=\"61d12ab56c725b4a42f8a6b3f0c22b70\" width=\"540\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just about two months ago, parts of the market were engulfed by fire and destroyed several shops and properties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about the fourth time in one year, wild fire has swept through parts of the Kumasi Central Market in the Ashanti Region. More than 1,000 live birds are reported to have been burnt to death and hundreds of shops destroyed. According to eyewitnesses, the fire started around 10pm in the yam market before spreading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179706","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}