{"id":461357,"date":"2018-02-04T18:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/04\/two-killed-in-tanker-explosion-2-others-injured\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:10:50","slug":"two-killed-in-tanker-explosion-2-others-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/04\/two-killed-in-tanker-explosion-2-others-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in tanker explosion, 2 others injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday,  4 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/30451541.295.jpg\" alt=\"Baku Tanker Explosion Western Region\" title=\"Baku Tanker Explosion Western Region\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The tanker was being welded when it exploded at the mechanic shop<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517767850_388_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A tanker explosion that was caused by repair works has killed two persons and injured two others at Baku near Atuabo in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>Driver of the truck, 47-year-old Eklu Agbormegah from Ashaiman told Police he took the tanker with the number registration GN 6228-14, to a mechanic shop for a faulty part to be welded.<\/p>\n<p>According the driver who reported himself to the Police, in the course of the welding, the tanker exploded and instantly killed a 16-year-old apprentice, Samuel Kenyah. The incident happened on Saturday February 3, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The driver\u2019s mate, 36-year-old Amos Tetteh who was injured together with Michael Boavo, 26 years and Jackson Bosompem, 23, both welders, died at a hospital on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies have been deposited at the Axim hospital mortuary for autopsy, while the injured, who are on admission at Eikwei Hospital, are responding to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police told Takoradi-based Connect FM that the tanker driver is currently in custody assisting in investigations while the exploded tanker has been impounded.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/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>General News of Sunday, 4 February 2018 Source: 3news.com 2018-02-04 The tanker was being welded when it exploded at the mechanic shop A tanker explosion that was caused by repair works has killed two persons and injured two others at Baku near Atuabo in the Western Region. Driver of the truck, 47-year-old Eklu Agbormegah from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}