{"id":467088,"date":"2018-02-23T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/23\/thunder-strikes-man-dead-at-ngleshie-amanfrom\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:11:06","slug":"thunder-strikes-man-dead-at-ngleshie-amanfrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/23\/thunder-strikes-man-dead-at-ngleshie-amanfrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder strikes man dead at Ngleshie Amanfrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 23 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-23<\/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\/65262440.295.jpg\" alt=\"School Lightning\" title=\"School Lightning\" width=\"295\" height=\"159\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>One of the affected school by the flood after the rains at Ngleshie Amanfrom<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519420266_907_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A 23-year-old man was last Tuesday struck dead by thunder during a brief rainfall at Ngleshie Amanfrom, near Kasoa in the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased has been identified only as Abdul Samed.<\/p>\n<p>His remains have been deposited at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mrs Effia Tenge, confirmed the story.<\/p>\n<p><b>Briefing<\/b><\/p>\n<p>She said the rainfall, which started at about 10:30 a.m. last Tuesday, was accompanied by lightning and thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Tenge said two buildings belonging to the Taribiyo M\/A Junior High School (JHS) and St Peters Primary and JHS had their roofs ripped off.<\/p>\n<p>Two pupils of the schools, whose identities were not readily available, also sustained various degrees of injury in the process.<\/p>\n<p>They have since been treated and discharged from the Amanfrom Polyclinic.<\/p>\n<p>A fuel station near the Amanfrom Polyclinic was also hit by the storm, resulting in the collapse of a concrete stand at the station.<\/p>\n<p><b>Intervention<\/b><\/p>\n<p>But for the timely intervention of the Weija District Fire Service personnel, who were able to wash away leaked fuel, the fuel station would have caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>She said the management of the fuel filling station was advised to stop operating until the pumping machine was fixed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 35 updated by: 35 --><\/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 Friday, 23 February 2018 Source: Graphic.com.gh 2018-02-23 One of the affected school by the flood after the rains at Ngleshie Amanfrom A 23-year-old man was last Tuesday struck dead by thunder during a brief rainfall at Ngleshie Amanfrom, near Kasoa in the Central Region. 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