{"id":279091,"date":"2016-12-23T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279091"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T11:04:29","slug":"mahama-mourns-labadi-gas-explosion-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279091","title":{"rendered":"Mahama  mourns Labadi gas explosion victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of Thursday evening\u2019s gas explosion incident at Labadi.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook update on Friday morning, he called on Ghanaians to continue to pray for the injured.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FJDMahama%2Fposts%2F1441089302568888&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"161\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About 39 persons are reported injured and 5 confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to the deputy minister of Health Victor Bampoe, 27 of the injured are currently receiving treatment at the 37 Military Hospital with 6 at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and 6 at the La General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred at about 4pm on Thursday between the Labadi Cemetery and the Trade Fair Centre.<\/p>\n<p>It took fire officers more than four hours to control the inferno which had spread to nearby shops and parts of the Trade Fair Centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time for strict enforcement of safety regulations \u2013 Akufo Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has called for better adherence to safety regulations in the country following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets on Twitter, Nana Akufo-Addo said it was about time the country took a second look at the siting of gas stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learnt with sadness of the news of a gas explosion near the Trade Fair Centre, resulting in the loss of 6 lives, and injuries to others. My deepest condolences to the families of the bereaved, and I wish the injured a speedy recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<script>!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');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of Thursday evening\u2019s gas explosion incident at Labadi. In a Facebook update on Friday morning, he called on Ghanaians to continue to pray for the injured. About 39 persons are reported injured and 5 confirmed dead. According to the deputy minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":222557,"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":[11],"tags":[3,2489,14458,464],"class_list":["post-279091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-labadi-explosion","tag-labadi-gas-explosion","tag-mahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279091","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}