{"id":215240,"date":"2016-05-18T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215240"},"modified":"2016-05-18T13:41:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:41:26","slug":"collapsed-storey-building-traps-workers-at-berekuso-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215240","title":{"rendered":"Collapsed storey-building traps workers at Berekuso [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-storey building under construction at Berekuso in the Eastern Region has collapsed trapping some construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher at the Berekuso Basic School, Andrews Osei Bonsu, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that he heard a loud noise whiles he was teaching only to find out that part of the building had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215248 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Image.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215245 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Image-4.jpg\" alt=\"Image 4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He quoted a food vendor close to the building as saying that, two workers she was about to sell food to have been trapped in the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lady said that she saw at least two people who have been trapped. But I am told there were other people working on top of the building so we currently don\u2019t have the exact number of those trapped under there aside the two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said other workers who were not very close to the building quickly fled the site to safety.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215244 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Image-3.jpg\" alt=\"Image 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215243 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Image-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rescuers are yet to move to the scene to assist the victims.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear yet what may have caused the collapse, but recent <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/04\/15\/boy-13-man-48-killed-in-kumasi-collapsed-building\/\">incidences<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/27\/update-3-confirmed-dead-in-cantonment-collapsed-building\/\">collapsed buildings<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the country have largely been blamed on architectural flaws and disregard for safety.<\/p>\n<p>More soon&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfanyiDadzie\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AfanyiDadzie<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![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>A three-storey building under construction at Berekuso in the Eastern Region has collapsed trapping some construction workers. A teacher at the Berekuso Basic School, Andrews Osei Bonsu, told Citi News that he heard a loud noise whiles he was teaching only to find out that part of the building had collapsed. 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