{"id":322120,"date":"2017-05-24T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=322120"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:12:59","slug":"six-injured-after-nkwanda-fuel-tanker-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=322120","title":{"rendered":"Six injured after Nkwanda fuel tanker explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion involving a fuel tanker at Nkwanda Number Two in the Eastern Region has injured six people.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred after the tanker veered off the road.<\/p>\n<p>The six injured included four fire service personnel, the driver of the truck and his assistant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322133\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-5.jpg\" alt=\"fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-5\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322132\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-4.jpg\" alt=\"fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-4\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to<strong> Citi News<\/strong>, the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of Ghana National Fire Service, Samuel Mantey revealed that the tanker was travelling from Tema to Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Three fire engines were deployed to fight the fire and in the course of extinguishing the fire, there was an explosion which injured four firemen so they were rushed to a nearby clinic for treatment,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322131\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-3.jpg\" alt=\"fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-3\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322130\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-2.jpg\" alt=\"fuel-tanker-explosion-nkwanda-4-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Samuel Mantey, what the firemen were doing after the fire was to apply \u201cfoam concentrate to prevent additional fires from occurring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He explained that with fuel, it &#8220;vaporises and when it comes into contact with the ambient oxygen, it can easily catch flames again so we are trying to control that aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5d7a646b-7077-4533-939e-51be0a59c1ba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-322137\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5d7a646b-7077-4533-939e-51be0a59c1ba.jpg\" alt=\"5d7a646b-7077-4533-939e-51be0a59c1ba\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8447f4ae-93ae-4993-9242-dc14ebfe514a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322136\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8447f4ae-93ae-4993-9242-dc14ebfe514a.jpg\" alt=\"8447f4ae-93ae-4993-9242-dc14ebfe514a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion involving a fuel tanker at Nkwanda Number Two in the Eastern Region has injured six people. The explosion occurred after the tanker veered off the road. The six injured included four fire service personnel, the driver of the truck and his assistant. Speaking to Citi News, the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of [&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],"tags":[641,511,3,7435],"class_list":["post-322120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fire-service","tag-gas-explosion","tag-ghana-news","tag-nkawanda-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322120","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=322120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}