{"id":359818,"date":"2017-10-07T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359818"},"modified":"2017-10-07T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T14:38:52","slug":"12-month-old-baby-12-others-drown-in-river-offin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359818","title":{"rendered":"12-month old baby, 12 others drown in River Offin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13 people, including a one-year-old, have drowned\u00a0in\u00a0River Offin in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-359861\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Offin-River-2.jpg\" alt=\"offin-river-2\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The victims who are farmers, were using a boat to the other side of the river when it capsized.<\/p>\n<p>Seven of the victims have since been rescued with the rest including the toddler still trapped in the river.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-359861\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Offin-River-2.jpg\" alt=\"offin-river-2\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rescue efforts are underway after traditional authorities there performed rituals to seek the assistance of their gods.<\/p>\n<p>A 60-year old woman who was rescued is in a critical condition, and has since been rushed to the Nkawie Government Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>More soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Hafiz Tijani\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 people, including a one-year-old, have drowned\u00a0in\u00a0River Offin in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region. The victims who are farmers, were using a boat to the other side of the river when it capsized. Seven of the victims have since been rescued with the rest including the toddler still trapped in the river. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[484,42,3,588],"class_list":["post-359818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-drowning","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-river-offin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359818","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}