{"id":363491,"date":"2017-10-20T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363491"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:34:27","slug":"atomic-explosion-driver-dies-after-getting-new-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363491","title":{"rendered":"Atomic explosion driver dies after getting new tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of the gas tanker that exploded at Atomic junction in Accra a fortnight ago, reportedly <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/20\/tanker-driver-in-atomic-gas-explosion-dies-mysteriously\/\"><strong>died mysteriously<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0just when he had gotten a new tanker to work with.<\/p>\n<p>Yussif Seidu, who escaped unhurt during the explosion, according to the Public Relations Officer of the LPG Marketing Companies Association, Kwame Owiredu, died after becoming unconscious during a meeting with LPG truck drivers.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;4U2Mz6ljKy6lEFiOlnkkAJVxehjyelDZ&#8221;]\u201cI can confirm to you that Yussif Seidu, the driver who was in charge of the tanker that caught fire at Atomic Junction is no more with us. I can also say that he didn\u2019t die as a result of any injury flowing from the accident that occurred, but he died a natural death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was with us yesterday [Thursday] at our yard. We actually were chatting with him; we had even gotten him a new tanker. So we were all happy that he\u2019s gotten a new tanker. Whilst we were in a conversation with him, I think he went unconscious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Seidu said they quickly rushed him to the Tema General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, October 7, a gas explosion occurred at Atomic junction\u00a0which <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/08\/atomic-gas-explosion-death-toll-now-7-information-ministry\/\"><strong>killed seven people<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and injured 132 others.<\/p>\n<p>The area around the epicenter of the explosion is known to be a hotbed of activity with a commercial bus [trotro] station, taxi rank, other fuel stations and traders located in the immediate vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Police and fire service investigations are yet to be concluded to ascertain the actual cause of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of the gas tanker that exploded at Atomic junction in Accra a fortnight ago, reportedly died mysteriously\u00a0just when he had gotten a new tanker to work with. Yussif Seidu, who escaped unhurt during the explosion, according to the Public Relations Officer of the LPG Marketing Companies Association, Kwame Owiredu, died after becoming unconscious [&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":[11],"tags":[616,1266,3],"class_list":["post-363491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-atomic-junction","tag-gas-tanker-driver-dies","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363491","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=363491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}