{"id":412257,"date":"2018-03-23T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=412257"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:55:10","slug":"man-falls-to-death-from-graphic-road-overpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=412257","title":{"rendered":"Man falls to death from Graphic Road Overpass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activities around the Graphic Road area in Accra were disrupted on Friday morning by a bizarre incident in which a young man believed to be in his twenties fell some 40 feet to his death from the Overpass linking the area to Kaneshie.<\/p>\n

The deceased, visibly\u00a0unkempt suffered a gaping head wound as a result of the fall.<\/p>\n

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Eyewitnesses say the incident happened around 9:00am of Friday after the deceased was seen staggering on the Overpass.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what led to the fall, but his body has been picked up by the police and deposited at the morgue.<\/p>\n

Indications are that most of the\u00a0persons did not see the actual fall.<\/p>\n

“What Eyewitness tell me was that they were there around 9:00am when they heard a loud sound and [saw that] somebody had fallen, [but] they cannot tell me exactly what happened,\u201d Citi News<\/strong>‘ Farida Shaibu reported from the scene.<\/p>\n

One of the eyewitnesses told her that \u201cit was after the fall that we realized he was a human being because of the speed with which he fell. It was really fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

Activities around the Graphic Road area in Accra were disrupted on Friday morning by a bizarre incident in which a young man believed to be in his twenties fell some 40 feet to his death from the Overpass linking the area to Kaneshie. The deceased, visibly\u00a0unkempt suffered a gaping head wound as a result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":412262,"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":[3,18201],"class_list":["post-412257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-graphic-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412257","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=412257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/412262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}