{"id":1124090,"date":"2022-06-16T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/16\/young-man-falls-in-abandon-well-at-kumasi-meduma-dies-trying-to-retrieve-300ghc-from-the-pit\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:07:20","slug":"young-man-falls-in-abandon-well-at-kumasi-meduma-dies-trying-to-retrieve-300ghc-from-the-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/16\/young-man-falls-in-abandon-well-at-kumasi-meduma-dies-trying-to-retrieve-300ghc-from-the-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"Young man falls in abandon well at Kumasi Meduma; dies trying to retrieve 300ghc from the pit \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Attempting to rescue 300ghc from an abandoned well, Bright Owoahene Acheampong, a young guy, met his sad demise.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Meduma, a village in Ghana\u2019s Ashanti Region\u2019s Kwabere East District, was the scene of the tragic tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>After his mother threw 300ghc down the hole while discarding the trash, the 22-year-old crawled down the abandoned well.<\/p>\n<p>Residents say the dry well has turned into a trap since it was abandoned since it was unable to provide water.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>As soon as Bright Owoahene Acheampong, aka Akwasi Broni, fell into the well, he yelled for aid at the top of his lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours were summoned to the scene after hearing her son\u2019s cries for rescue. The well also claimed the life of a local inhabitant who made an attempt to escape.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The National Fire Service was summoned by a few residents as things were getting out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Mampongteng police station were able to save the two other victims, however, Akwasi Broni was unable to be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Akwasi Broni was declared dead shortly after the two of them arrived at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Checks have shown that the mother of the dead urged him to stay away from the abandoned well before he attempted to recover the 300ghc, but he ignored her.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are now pushing for the well to be covered up after the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Attempting to rescue 300ghc from an abandoned well, Bright Owoahene Acheampong, a young guy, met his sad demise. Meduma, a village in Ghana\u2019s Ashanti Region\u2019s Kwabere East District, was the scene of the tragic tragedy. After his mother threw 300ghc down the hole while discarding the trash, the 22-year-old crawled down the abandoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1124093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13526,7079,862,2774,2537,697,17841,17842,17843,128],"class_list":["post-1124090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-300ghc","tag-abandon","tag-dies","tag-falls","tag-kumasi","tag-man","tag-meduma","tag-pit","tag-retrieve","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}