{"id":360425,"date":"2017-10-09T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360425"},"modified":"2017-10-09T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:25:30","slug":"nana-addo-visits-gas-explosion-victims-blast-site-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360425","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo visits gas explosion victims, blast site [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Akufo-Addo has visited\u00a0injured victims of the Atomic Junction Gas explosion\u00a0who are receiving treatment at the Accra Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n

Seven people<\/strong><\/a><\/span> were confirmed dead in the aftermath of the blast, while 132 people sustained varying degrees of injury.<\/p>\n

68 are receiving treatment, while 64 others have been discharged from the various hospitals across the capital.<\/p>\n

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The President, who had been on a tour of the Northern Region when the incident occurred, had tweeted earlier that he was devasted by the lives<\/strong><\/a><\/span> that had been lost to the explosion.<\/p>\n

Nana Akufo-Addo also visited the site of the blast accompanied by a number of government officials<\/p>\n

He was then briefed on the current situation by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Hassan Tampuli.<\/p>\n

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The residents of Atomic Junction in Madina were thrown into a state of panic following the explosion at the gas station which spread to adjacent structures.<\/p>\n

The huge fireball from the explosion could be seen with many people in the vicinity taking to their heels in a bid to escape the blaze.
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Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, had earlier visited<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>the survivors of the explosion where he\u00a0sympathized with them and wished them speedy recovery.<\/p>\n

He had said early on that government will foot the medical bills\u00a0of the injured persons, as efforts are being made to introduce a policy that will sanitize the\u00a0fuel retail sector to avoid such explosions.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 30 lives have been lost to about eight\u00a0gas explosions\u00a0in the last four years, aside the twin disaster of flood and fire on June 3, 2015, which killed nearly 150 people.<\/p>\n

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

President Akufo-Addo has visited\u00a0injured victims of the Atomic Junction Gas explosion\u00a0who are receiving treatment at the Accra Regional Hospital. Seven people were confirmed dead in the aftermath of the blast, while 132 people sustained varying degrees of injury. 68 are receiving treatment, while 64 others have been discharged from the various hospitals across the capital. […]<\/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":[10,11],"tags":[656,3,156],"class_list":["post-360425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-atomic-gas-explosion","tag-ghana-news","tag-nana-addo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360425","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=360425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}