{"id":317571,"date":"2017-05-09T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=317571"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:20:39","slug":"25-persons-injured-in-takoradi-gas-explosion-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=317571","title":{"rendered":"25 persons injured in Takoradi gas explosion [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 persons including 5 fire officers, have been rushed to the hospital after sustaining various degrees of injury from a gas explosion in Takoradi on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317585\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Takoradi-fire-3.jpeg\" alt=\"takoradi-fire-3\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some residents said they heard a loud explosive sound from a company near the OLAM warehouse on the Sekondi-Takoradi highway, around\u00a0a Total filling station at about 7.20am today [Tuesday].<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317578\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Takoradi-fire-10.jpeg\" alt=\"takoradi-fire-10\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Obrempong Yaw Ampofoh reports that, 8 fire tenders were at the scene with dozens of fire fighters working to douse the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317585\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Takoradi-fire-3.jpeg\" alt=\"takoradi-fire-3\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said the personnel have deployed all their equipment to battle the inferno which is spreading to nearby facilities including some warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 persons including 5 fire officers, have been rushed to the hospital after sustaining various degrees of injury from a gas explosion in Takoradi on Tuesday morning. Some residents said they heard a loud explosive sound from a company near the OLAM warehouse on the Sekondi-Takoradi highway, around\u00a0a Total filling station at about 7.20am today [&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":[10,11],"tags":[412,641,3936],"class_list":["post-317571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-fire","tag-fire-service","tag-takoradi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317571","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=317571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}