{"id":301238,"date":"2017-03-13T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=301238"},"modified":"2017-03-13T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:03:20","slug":"two-teachers-student-drown-in-river-volta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=301238","title":{"rendered":"Two teachers, student drown in River Volta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teachers and a student from Sadzikofe Basic School, Tornu on Have-Kpando road in the Afadzato South District drowned in the Dayi river; a tributary of River Volta while crossing the river.<\/p>\n<p>The late Terry Asamoah, William Ahiati and their final year JHS Student were said to be onboard a wooden boat with other teachers to buy fresh fish in the next town \u00a0when the boat hit a stump in the river, causing a leakage that capsized it.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitness, the incidence happened on Friday and the trio drowned while the other three teachers survived.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies have however been deposited at the Afoega Catholic Hospital for further medical autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>The incidence is the second in two days after the lifeless body of a taxi cap driver was earlier on Sunday seen floating on a pond in Anfoeta in the Ho west District.<\/p>\n<p>Residents who believed the death of Ashong were questionable are pleading with the police to conduct a thorough investigation to reveal the facts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: King Norbert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two teachers and a student from Sadzikofe Basic School, Tornu on Have-Kpando road in the Afadzato South District drowned in the Dayi river; a tributary of River Volta while crossing the river. The late Terry Asamoah, William Ahiati and their final year JHS Student were said to be onboard a wooden boat with other teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[4982,3,4983],"class_list":["post-301238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-drown","tag-ghana-news","tag-river-volta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301238","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=301238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}