{"id":425287,"date":"2017-10-04T21:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T21:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/04\/ghanaian-fashion-designer-escapes-las-vegas-mass-shooting\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T21:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T21:34:26","slug":"ghanaian-fashion-designer-escapes-las-vegas-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/04\/ghanaian-fashion-designer-escapes-las-vegas-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Fashion Designer escapes Las Vegas mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Celebrated Ghanaian Fashion Designer,\u00a0<strong>Tetteh Plahar<\/strong> is thankful he didn\u2019t lose his life during the recent mass shooting incident at Las Vegas, United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>At least 58 people are reported dead, and 515 people suffered various degrees of injuries when\u00a0Stephen Paddock, 64, fired into a crowd at a country music concert at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Plahar spoke to the\u00a0<strong>Daily Heritage<\/strong>\u00a0about his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>If you look at the layout of the city, you feel everything is fine. But now if I am walking on the streets I have to be extra-careful and look behind me to see who is coming,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Plahar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-53133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2484816607863_2669116038466.jpg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"622\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We were in our rooms at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, which is directly opposite the place where the shooting happened. When I heard the sound outside, I thought it was fireworks until I saw people running and police vehicles driving to the scene. I was panicking because we didn\u2019t know where he [the gunman] was hiding and what he would do next. We were terrified but things calmed down when the police came around.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A one-time Designer for\u00a0Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings . Former First Lady, he explained that prior to the incident, security wasn\u2019t tight:\u00a0<em>\u201cprior to the shootings, security at the hotel wasn\u2019t tight. No one was checking what one was carrying inside the hotel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated Ghanaian Fashion Designer,\u00a0Tetteh Plahar is thankful he didn\u2019t lose his life during the recent mass shooting incident at Las Vegas, United States of America. At least 58 people are reported dead, and 515 people suffered various degrees of injuries when\u00a0Stephen Paddock, 64, fired into a crowd at a country music concert at the Mandalay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian Fashion Designer escapes Las Vegas mass shooting - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/04\/ghanaian-fashion-designer-escapes-las-vegas-mass-shooting\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghanaian Fashion Designer escapes Las Vegas mass shooting - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Celebrated Ghanaian Fashion Designer,\u00a0Tetteh Plahar is thankful he didn\u2019t lose his life during the recent mass shooting incident at Las Vegas, United States of America. 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