{"id":313035,"date":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=313035"},"modified":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","slug":"body-of-drowned-man-found-in-abbosey-okai-gutter-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=313035","title":{"rendered":"Body of drowned man found in Abbosey Okai gutter [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man believed to have drowned in last Thursday\u2019s floods at Adabraka Sahara in Accra\u00a0has been found in a gutter near the Abossey Okai Central mosque.<\/p>\n<p>According to some residents [At Abossey Okai], the body of the man whose identity is it yet to be known, was seen floating in the gutter on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313043 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/man-drowned-at-adabraka-5.jpg\" alt=\"man-drowned-at-adabraka-5\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the residents, Kweku Nsiah told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that he saw the body of the man floating from the Kwame Nkrumah circle direction of the river towards their end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw his body in the morning we quickly called the police but they have still not been able to come for the body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accra devastated by floods\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many parts of Ghana\u2019s capital, Accra, was devastated by floods following one hour of rain on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-313042 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/man-drowned-at-adabraka-4.jpg\" alt=\"man-drowned-at-adabraka-4\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The situation made it very difficult for some motorists to continue their journeys due to the pressure of the flood waters on highways.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in areas including Adabraka-Sahara in the capital, were left frustrated as they spent several hours into midnight salvaging their properties and scooping out rainwater that had flooded their houses.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents told Citi News that they had no option than to leave the area and search for safe grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The aftermath of the downpour left pools of water on some major roads including the Abeka Junction section of the Achimota-Accra road, Mallam Junction, as well as the Okponglo section of the Madina-37 highway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man believed to have drowned in last Thursday\u2019s floods at Adabraka Sahara in Accra\u00a0has been found in a gutter near the Abossey Okai Central mosque. According to some residents [At Abossey Okai], the body of the man whose identity is it yet to be known, was seen floating in the gutter [&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":[5800,552,3,6449],"class_list":["post-313035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-adabraka","tag-flood","tag-ghana-news","tag-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313035","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=313035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}