{"id":359975,"date":"2017-10-07T20:59:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359975"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:59:40","slug":"legon-students-run-for-their-lives-after-atomic-junction-gas-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=359975","title":{"rendered":"Legon students run for their lives after Atomic Junction gas explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of students at the University of Ghana are fleeing for their lives following a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/07\/gas-station-explodes-at-atomic-junction\/\">gas explosion <\/a><\/strong><\/span>that occurred at the Atomic junction in Accra, few meters away from the school.<\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred around 7:00pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Badu Jnr, a reporter who was on campus before the explosion, said \u201cit shook the roofing of the Pentagon hall where I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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<\/p>\n<p>There are two gas stations and two\u00a0petrol and diesel stations around the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Richard Dela Sky, who is also at Atomic junction where the incident occurred, reported that \u201cit is really terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of students at the University of Ghana are fleeing for their lives following a gas explosion that occurred at the Atomic junction in Accra, few meters away from the school. The fire occurred around 7:00pm on Saturday. Franklin Badu Jnr, a reporter who was on campus before the explosion, said \u201cit shook the roofing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[615,3],"class_list":["post-359975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-atomic-junction-fire","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359975","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}