{"id":320132,"date":"2017-05-17T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320132"},"modified":"2017-05-17T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T17:28:02","slug":"gas-explosion-kills-one-five-injured-in-tamale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320132","title":{"rendered":"Gas explosion kills one, five injured in Tamale"},"content":{"rendered":"

One person is reported dead whilst five have been injured as a result of gas explosion at a welding shop in Tamale.<\/p>\n

The welding shop is at Lamashegu industrial area near Guinness Ghana Limited depot.<\/p>\n

The explosion involved acetylene, a\u00a0colourless gas widely used as a fuel.<\/p>\n

\"explosion\"<\/p>\n

The remains of the deceased have been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital Morgue whilst the injured are receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

\"delta-force\"<\/p>\n

According to an eyewitness, Mary Mensah, the deceased moved from his welding shop to assist his colleagues to fix a problem on someone’s car.<\/p>\n

She said in the process of welding, the gas cylinder exploded and damaged properties including Guinness Ghana Limited Toyota Hilux Pickup and a long truck both packed at the -depot.<\/p>\n

\"expo-3\"<\/p>\n

This incident follows an explosion<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at the\u00a0Takoradi Port Hospital in the Western Region where over 100 sustained injuries from a gas explosion on the Sekondi-Takoradi road. In 2016, there was a gas explosion at the Trade Fair<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in Labadi in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n

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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One person is reported dead whilst five have been injured as a result of gas explosion at a welding shop in Tamale. The welding shop is at Lamashegu industrial area near Guinness Ghana Limited depot. The explosion involved acetylene, a\u00a0colourless gas widely used as a fuel. The remains of the deceased have been deposited at […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[511,3],"class_list":["post-320132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gas-explosion","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320132","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=320132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}