{"id":1211310,"date":"2022-09-26T16:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/26\/one-more-appiatse-disaster-victim-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:55:30","slug":"one-more-appiatse-disaster-victim-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/26\/one-more-appiatse-disaster-victim-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"One more Appiatse disaster victim passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>One more person involved in last January&#8217;s Appiatse disaster has passed on.<\/h2>\n<p>The victim suffered a spine injury and has been in hospital all this while.<\/p>\n<p>He passed on at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital where he was on admission last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>John Opare, 27, developed a spine injury during the disaster which happened in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Opare had been in and out of hospital for the past eight months.<\/p>\n<p>He was paralyzed as a result of the spine injury.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of casualties from that disaster to 16.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen were pronounced dead on the spot and the remaining three died in the ensuing months.<\/p>\n<p>Maxam Ghana Limited, the company at the centre of the explosion that occurred at Appiatse in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality\u00a0of the Western Region, has been fined US$1 million plus other costs totaling US$6 million.<\/p>\n<p>more to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"ce41091802952fd6c0a5ba7b-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"ce41091802952fd6c0a5ba7b-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more person involved in last January&#8217;s Appiatse disaster has passed on. The victim suffered a spine injury and has been in hospital all this while. He passed on at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital where he was on admission last Friday. John Opare, 27, developed a spine injury during the disaster which happened in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211310","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=1211310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}