{"id":410048,"date":"2018-03-15T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=410048"},"modified":"2018-03-15T17:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:01:38","slug":"two-ejura-islamic-shs-students-killed-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/two-ejura-islamic-shs-students-killed-in-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ejura Islamic SHS students killed in car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two students of the Ejura Islamic Senior School in the Ejura\/ Sekyedumase Municipality of the Ashanti Region have been confirmed dead after a vehicle run over them.<\/p>\n
The two were part of a group of four female students returning from school to their homes when a Nissan Navara pickup from Atebubu heading to Sunyani, lost control and run over them\u00a0around the Ejura Agriculture School at about 1:15 pm on Tuesday 13th March ,2018.<\/p>\n
The two deceased persons; Iddrisu Maridiya and Shaibu Farisa, both 19 years, died on arrival at the Ejura Government Hospital.<\/p>\n
Headmaster of the Ejura Islamic Senior School, Adams Zakaria, who confirmed the incident to Citi News <\/strong>said the two bodies have since been buried according to Islamic rites.<\/p>\n He further indicated that the other two victims are in critical condition.<\/p>\n \u201cI went to the Assembly hall meeting and after the meeting I had a call from one of the students so I picked my car and rushed to the school and when I got there,they [victims] had already been rushed to the hospital but I saw the Navara pick up.I was confused. I could not even find out from them what actually happened. I rushed to the emergency ward where I saw my students lying dead. The other two were in a critical condition,” Mr. Zakaria said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Police have arrested the driver and impounded his vehicle.<\/p>\n Several lives have been lost to road accidents across the country since the beginning of the year 2018.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Hafiz Tijani\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two students of the Ejura Islamic Senior School in the Ejura\/ Sekyedumase Municipality of the Ashanti Region have been confirmed dead after a vehicle run over them. The two were part of a group of four female students returning from school to their homes when a Nissan Navara pickup from Atebubu heading to Sunyani, lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":408259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[1667,3,1215],"yoast_head":"\n