{"id":250536,"date":"2016-09-22T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250536"},"modified":"2016-09-22T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T11:37:45","slug":"sasso-van-explodes-on-n1-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250536","title":{"rendered":"Sasso van explodes on N1 Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sasso Insecticide distribution van caught fire on the N1 Highway at the Fiesta Royal intersection on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness who spoke to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> reported that, the insecticide canisters inside exploded amidst the combustion of the van.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/e7c55a12-68cb-4b26-815e-09f026c56d68.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250539\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/e7c55a12-68cb-4b26-815e-09f026c56d68.jpg\" alt=\"Sasso van explotion\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eyewitness described \u201ca ball of fire\u201d from where he was standing \u201cwith smoke billowing into the sky\u201d leaving the streets littered with empty insecticide cans.<\/p>\n<p>The fire and the resulting canister explosions have left traffic at a standstill as the eyewitness reported that the fire had affected some traffic light systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/13873e83-4ed1-4617-b87b-5da29393949b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250541\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/13873e83-4ed1-4617-b87b-5da29393949b.jpg\" alt=\"Sasso van explotion\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very scary, everybody is running for cover and Fire Service is yet to appear on the scene\u2026 it is a very scary sight,\u201d he said of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The eyewitness was however unable to ascertain what exactly caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Photos credit: Eyewitness<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sasso Insecticide distribution van caught fire on the N1 Highway at the Fiesta Royal intersection on Thursday morning. An eyewitness who spoke to Citi News reported that, the insecticide canisters inside exploded amidst the combustion of the van. The eyewitness described \u201ca ball of fire\u201d from where he was standing \u201cwith smoke billowing into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":250540,"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":[5],"tags":[3,11968],"class_list":["post-250536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-sasso-van-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250536","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=250536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}