{"id":317693,"date":"2017-05-09T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=317693"},"modified":"2017-05-09T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:30:14","slug":"the-moments-right-before-the-takoradi-gas-explosion-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=317693","title":{"rendered":"The moments right before the Takoradi gas explosion [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 persons were left with varying injuries after a gas explosion on the Sekondi-Takoradi road in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses and officials from the Ghana National Fire Service who spoke to Obrempong, the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/09\/update-over-100-injured-in-takoradi-gas-explosion\/\">explosion <\/a><\/strong><\/span>occurred \u201cat about 7: 10 this [Tuesday] morning, when a gas tanker was discharging gas close to the Total fuel\u00a0station on the main Takoradi Highway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The footage below features the moments before the explosion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Excx1WkWa0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Melvin Clottey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 persons were left with varying injuries after a gas explosion on the Sekondi-Takoradi road in the Western Region. According to eyewitnesses and officials from the Ghana National Fire Service who spoke to Obrempong, the explosion occurred \u201cat about 7: 10 this [Tuesday] morning, when a gas tanker was discharging gas close to the [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317693","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=317693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}