{"id":27564,"date":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27564"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","slug":"disaster-nine-fishermen-feared-dead-on-volta-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=27564","title":{"rendered":"Disaster: Nine fishermen feared dead on Volta Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nine fishermen on board two boats are feared dead in another boat disaster which occurred at dawn last Tuesday, on the Volta Lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The incident happened barely a week after a similar event on the lake had claimed 18 lives.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred when the two boats, reportedly on fishing expedition from different locations, were hit by a windstorm on the lake around 2:a.m., capsizing them.<\/p>\n<p>So far one body has been retrieved, while eight others are still missing. Three of the fishermen were rescued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The operations officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in the Biakoye District, Ms Mercy Edith Mensah, confirmed the accident to the Daily Graphic.<\/p>\n<p>She said unconfirmed reports suggested that the dead body and the three rescued were part of the boat with nine passengers travelling from Tapa-Odei to Tapa-Abotoase in the Worawora District in the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>A search party made up of the Tapa-Abotoase NADMO Zonal Co-ordinator and a team of fishermen are still searching for the eight people.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the incident. The body retrieved is yet to be identified and has since been deposited at the Worawora Hospital mortuary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Graphic Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine fishermen on board two boats are feared dead in another boat disaster which occurred at dawn last Tuesday, on the Volta Lake. The incident happened barely a week after a similar event on the lake had claimed 18 lives. The incident occurred when the two boats, reportedly on fishing expedition from different locations, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23686,"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":[58],"tags":[1512,17],"class_list":["post-27564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-opinion","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564","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=27564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}