{"id":313035,"date":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=313035"},"modified":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:07:48","slug":"body-of-drowned-man-found-in-abbosey-okai-gutter-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/body-of-drowned-man-found-in-abbosey-okai-gutter-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of drowned man found in Abbosey Okai gutter [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"
The body of a man believed to have drowned in last Thursday\u2019s floods at Adabraka Sahara in Accra\u00a0has been found in a gutter near the Abossey Okai Central mosque.<\/p>\n
According to some residents [At Abossey Okai], the body of the man whose identity is it yet to be known, was seen floating in the gutter on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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One of the residents, Kweku Nsiah told Citi News<\/strong> that he saw the body of the man floating from the Kwame Nkrumah circle direction of the river towards their end.<\/p>\n \u201cWe saw his body in the morning we quickly called the police but they have still not been able to come for the body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Accra devastated by floods\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Many parts of Ghana\u2019s capital, Accra, was devastated by floods following one hour of rain on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The situation made it very difficult for some motorists to continue their journeys due to the pressure of the flood waters on highways.<\/p>\n Residents in areas including Adabraka-Sahara in the capital, were left frustrated as they spent several hours into midnight salvaging their properties and scooping out rainwater that had flooded their houses.<\/p>\n Some residents told Citi News that they had no option than to leave the area and search for safe grounds.<\/p>\n The aftermath of the downpour left pools of water on some major roads including the Abeka Junction section of the Achimota-Accra road, Mallam Junction, as well as the Okponglo section of the Madina-37 highway.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The body of a man believed to have drowned in last Thursday\u2019s floods at Adabraka Sahara in Accra\u00a0has been found in a gutter near the Abossey Okai Central mosque. According to some residents [At Abossey Okai], the body of the man whose identity is it yet to be known, was seen floating in the gutter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[5800,552,3,6449],"yoast_head":"\n