{"id":94,"date":"2014-02-21T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-02-23T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T08:47:32","slug":"three-die-in-illegal-mining-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Three die in illegal mining pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1619391_10152094416646107_222352476_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95\" alt=\"Mining pit\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1619391_10152094416646107_222352476_n.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Three illegal miners; a woman and two men, were on Thursday trapped to death in an old mining pit at Nyinawusu, a community in the Atwima-Mponua District.<\/p>\n<p>One other person, Adwoa Gyamaa, 22, was however, rescued and is now being treated of her wounds at the Nkawie Government Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased were identified as Agatha Oforiwaa, 40, Yaw Antwi, 28, and Stephen Tawiah, 42.<\/p>\n<p>They had entered the abandoned pit at about 0500 hours and started digging for the precious mineral when it caved in trapping them under tons of earth.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Albert Quansah, the District Commander, confirmed the incident to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and said the bodies of the deceased had been deposited at a mortuary at Toase for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three illegal miners; a woman and two men, were on Thursday trapped to death in an old mining pit at Nyinawusu, a community in the Atwima-Mponua District. One other person, Adwoa Gyamaa, 22, was however, rescued and is now being treated of her wounds at the Nkawie Government Hospital. The deceased were identified as Agatha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":95,"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":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}