{"id":359948,"date":"2017-10-07T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359948"},"modified":"2017-10-07T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:48:13","slug":"gas-station-explodes-at-atomic-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359948","title":{"rendered":"Gas station explodes at Atomic junction\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gas station at Atomic Junction in Accra is currently in flames.<\/p>\n

Citi News <\/strong>gathered that, the\u00a0gas station, located close to a Total fuel station at Atomic First, exploded before the fuel station later caught\u00a0 fire.<\/p>\n

Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Richard Dela Sky who is currently around the scene reported that \u201cit is really terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“I can hear piercing sound of gas explosion. I can see a lot of fire tenders here trying to put the fire off. The residual gas in the container is burning. I can still hear sounds of explosion. The whole area has been cordoned off by the police. No vehicle is being allowed to the scene.”<\/p>\n

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Franklin Badu Jnr, also reporting from the University of Ghana campus said the students are running for their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a huge explosion that shook the Pentagon hall where I was. It appears that the gas flared into the atmosphere and the inferno followed suit. Students numbering thousands are fleeing for their lives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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It is currently unclear whether lives have been lost, but personnel of the Fire Service are at the scene trying to\u00a0douse the fire.<\/p>\n

Richard Sky said he could count about seven vehicles completely burnt around the fire scene.<\/p>\n

He explained that if someone was at the site at the time of the explosion, the person might not have survived it.<\/p>\n

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

A gas station at Atomic Junction in Accra is currently in flames. Citi News gathered that, the\u00a0gas station, located close to a Total fuel station at Atomic First, exploded before the fuel station later caught\u00a0 fire. Citi News\u2019 Richard Dela Sky who is currently around the scene reported that \u201cit is really terrifying.\u201d “I can […]<\/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":[580,613,614,3],"class_list":["post-359948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-citi-fm","tag-fire-at-atomic-junction","tag-gas","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359948","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=359948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}