{"id":27564,"date":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=27564"},"modified":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T10:20:24","slug":"disaster-nine-fishermen-feared-dead-on-volta-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/disaster-nine-fishermen-feared-dead-on-volta-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster: Nine fishermen feared dead on Volta Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nine fishermen on board two boats are feared dead in another boat disaster which occurred at dawn last Tuesday, on the Volta Lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The incident happened barely a week after a similar event on the lake had claimed 18 lives.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred when the two boats, reportedly on fishing expedition from different locations, were hit by a windstorm on the lake around 2:a.m., capsizing them.<\/p>\n
So far one body has been retrieved, while eight others are still missing. Three of the fishermen were rescued.<\/p>\n
Confirmation\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The operations officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in the Biakoye District, Ms Mercy Edith Mensah, confirmed the accident to the Daily Graphic.<\/p>\n She said unconfirmed reports suggested that the dead body and the three rescued were part of the boat with nine passengers travelling from Tapa-Odei to Tapa-Abotoase in the Worawora District in the Volta Region.<\/p>\n A search party made up of the Tapa-Abotoase NADMO Zonal Co-ordinator and a team of fishermen are still searching for the eight people.<\/p>\n Investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of the incident. The body retrieved is yet to be identified and has since been deposited at the Worawora Hospital mortuary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Source: Graphic Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nine fishermen on board two boats are feared dead in another boat disaster which occurred at dawn last Tuesday, on the Volta Lake. The incident happened barely a week after a similar event on the lake had claimed 18 lives. The incident occurred when the two boats, reportedly on fishing expedition from different locations, were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[1512,17],"yoast_head":"\n