{"id":360085,"date":"2017-10-08T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360085"},"modified":"2017-10-08T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T09:23:02","slug":"six-dead-in-atomic-junction-gas-explosion-fire-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360085","title":{"rendered":"Six dead in Atomic junction gas explosion &#8211; Fire Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About six people have perished\u00a0following\u00a0the gas explosion that occurred at Atomic Junction in Accra on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed to <strong>Citi New<\/strong>s by the Deputy Public Relations Officer of Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Billy Anaglatey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we speak, six people dead due to this fire,\u201d he said, adding that about\u00a035 others sustained various degrees of injury.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether all the six died from burns, following reports that a vehicle knocked two students down as people run for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>There are also reports that one 0f the deceased died out of panic by falling off an overpass around the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-360073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Atomic-junction-gas-explosion-37-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"atomic-junction-gas-explosion-37\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Anaglatey said his team is still on the ground, and at the hospitals\u00a0where some of the victims were sent to in a bid to get the total number of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil we are able to reconcile the number, six are so far dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-360049 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/atomic-juncation-gas-explosion-site-1.jpg\" alt=\"atomic-juncation-gas-explosion-site-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fireball scare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A gas filling station at Atomic Junction in Accra exploded on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were thrown into a state of\u00a0pandemonium following the piercing sound of the explosion as well as the giant scary fireball that was formed in the sky.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-359968 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/atomic-gas-fire.jpg\" alt=\"atomic-gas-fire\" width=\"634\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students of the University of Ghana and PRESEC fled for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the Fire Service battled to put off the fire, but it was completely doused on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Anaglatey told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that &#8220;the last fire went off 6:00am this morning [Sunday].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About six people have perished\u00a0following\u00a0the gas explosion that occurred at Atomic Junction in Accra on Saturday. This was confirmed to Citi News by the Deputy Public Relations Officer of Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Billy Anaglatey. \u201cAs we speak, six people dead due to this fire,\u201d he said, adding that about\u00a035 others sustained various degrees [&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":[629,511,3],"class_list":["post-360085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-atomic-junction-gas-explosion","tag-gas-explosion","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360085","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=360085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}