{"id":185980,"date":"2016-01-31T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185980"},"modified":"2016-01-31T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:09:06","slug":"one-dead-others-feared-missing-in-afram-plains-ferry-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185980","title":{"rendered":"One dead, others feared missing in Afram plains ferry accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person drowned while several others were injured after a ferry crossing the Afram River on the Volta Lake sunk Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Afraim Plain North, Emmanuel Aboagye Didiyie, who confirmed the incident to <b>citifmonline.com<\/b>, said &#8220;the ferry was carting goods from Atoaboma to Bridgeano in the Eastern Region yesterday [Saturday], when the incident occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although he confirmed that one person died in the accident, he was unable to tell the actual number of people who got injured.<\/p>\n<p>Those injured in the accident are currently on admission at the hospital while the Kwahu Afram Plains District Security Council has mounted a search for others who are believed to have gone down with the sinking ferry.<\/p>\n<p>The actual\u00a0cause of the accident is not known\u00a0but locals say it could be due to overloading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person drowned while several others were injured after a ferry crossing the Afram River on the Volta Lake sunk Saturday night. The Member of Parliament for Afraim Plain North, Emmanuel Aboagye Didiyie, who confirmed the incident to citifmonline.com, said &#8220;the ferry was carting goods from Atoaboma to Bridgeano in the Eastern Region yesterday [Saturday], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":185982,"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-185980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185980","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=185980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}