{"id":406549,"date":"2018-03-05T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=406549"},"modified":"2018-03-06T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T07:38:21","slug":"swedru-collapsed-church-wall-kills-3-yr-old-injures-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=406549","title":{"rendered":"Swedru: Collapsed church wall kills 3-yr old, injures others"},"content":{"rendered":"

A three-year-old boy has been confirmed dead, while 30 others have been left injured following the collapse of a church building’s wall, and two others whose roofs were ripped off\u00a0 in a rainstorm at Agona Swedru in the Central Region.<\/p>\n

The buildings, located in different parts of the area, were holding Sunday services when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

The injured persons are receiving treatment at the Agona Swedru Government Hospital.<\/p>\n

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Covenant Temple Ministry, one of the affected churches, was shielding the children from the rainstorm when its roof and wall collapsed.<\/p>\n

The deceased, who was among the children seeking shelter on the podium, was crushed by the broken wall.<\/p>\n

It took the intervention of some personnel from the Ghana National Service to help persons trapped under the rubble to be removed.<\/p>\n

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in the region, estimates that over 600 residents may have been affected by the Sunday rainstorm, with some rendered homeless.<\/p>\n

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According to the Agona West Disaster Control Officer, Joseph Kojo Appiah, the incident\u00a0“has affected schools, residential facilities, and churches. The church building totally collapsed while a church service was ongoing. About 30 people were injured and they are receiving treatment at the hospital. In other rural areas, about 7 people were injured. About 600 people have been affected. Internally displaced persons are about 200 but they are all not in the same area. The rain brought a power outage so we are still trying to communicate with our staff on the ground so by close of day, we\u2019ll issue a full report.\u00a0For those without places to spend the night, we\u2019ll find a temporary shelter for them,\u201d he told Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, power is yet to be fully restored to the area as some electricity cables and poles were destroyed by the storm.<\/p>\n

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

A three-year-old boy has been confirmed dead, while 30 others have been left injured following the collapse of a church building’s wall, and two others whose roofs were ripped off\u00a0 in a rainstorm at Agona Swedru in the Central Region. The buildings, located in different parts of the area, were holding Sunday services when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":406552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4259,3],"class_list":["post-406549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-agona-swedru","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406549","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=406549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}