{"id":216286,"date":"2016-05-22T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216286"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T16:30:02","slug":"rains-submerge-parts-of-accra-again-photos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216286","title":{"rendered":"Rains submerge parts of Accra again [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Accra experience severe flooding after about an hour of rains.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216291\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/55ef3829-d30d-4c2e-aadc-70da8d83d5fa.jpg\" alt=\"55ef3829-d30d-4c2e-aadc-70da8d83d5fa\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There have been no reports of human casualties as yet but residents in these flooded areas have lost properties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216290\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/7c0daf6e-c099-46b8-907e-d8bdd0e1dd94.jpg\" alt=\"7c0daf6e-c099-46b8-907e-d8bdd0e1dd94\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong> Kojo Agyeman was on the ground and reported that several houses in Adabraka, Sahara, Santa Maria, Odorkor Official Town and several others were flooded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216288\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/c4355fc7-6a01-48aa-96a8-74d799a98e39.jpg\" alt=\"c4355fc7-6a01-48aa-96a8-74d799a98e39\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Residents in the area were seen disposing off some of their properties that had been damaged by the flood waters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216299\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/95e8c2aa-a872-427e-b6bd-b82e77f38195-1.jpg\" alt=\"95e8c2aa-a872-427e-b6bd-b82e77f38195 (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a similar story in suburbs of Darkuman where residents were trying to salvage their properties whilst\u00a0gas stoves, mattresses and some electronics were seen floating on the flood waters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216292\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6400ba99-782c-4df8-9fdf-3f047b8cbddc.jpg\" alt=\"6400ba99-782c-4df8-9fdf-3f047b8cbddc\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A visit to Odokor, Official Town, also revealed that their largest drain was choked because the residents had been throwing the rubbish in it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216289\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4fcaff8f-381e-4741-9764-accfce0e6bb5.jpg\" alt=\"4fcaff8f-381e-4741-9764-accfce0e6bb5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Residents in Official Town who spoke to Citi News said they resorted to dumping refuse in the drain because they have no other option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-216298\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/8ab7f179-9c44-45f6-b031-d00ceb66ce4a.jpg\" alt=\"8ab7f179-9c44-45f6-b031-d00ceb66ce4a\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Kojo Agyeman<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Accra experience severe flooding after about an hour of rains. There have been no reports of human casualties as yet but residents in these flooded areas have lost properties. Citi FM\u2019s Kojo Agyeman was on the ground and reported that several houses in Adabraka, Sahara, Santa Maria, Odorkor Official Town and several others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":216292,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216286","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=216286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}