{"id":1215716,"date":"2022-10-03T21:35:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/men-carry-their-wives-and-others-swim-as-they-battle-for-survival-after-heavy-rainfall\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T21:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:35:33","slug":"men-carry-their-wives-and-others-swim-as-they-battle-for-survival-after-heavy-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/03\/men-carry-their-wives-and-others-swim-as-they-battle-for-survival-after-heavy-rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Carry Their Wives And Others Swim As They Battle For Survival After Heavy Rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/6965c9096f9445319e5ea208c9c539a8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Men and women in the part of Krobo battle for survival after days of heavy Downpour resulting in flood and collapsing bridge that connects neighboring communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Otorkpolu Bridge in the Krobo Land area on the Odumase to Asesewa highway has been partially submerged by water after continuous heavy downpour in the Eastern Region which has made it difficult for commuters  vehicles to cross. <\/p>\n<p>Men are seen carrying their women and those who can also swim trying their best to cross the deep water.<\/p>\n<p>Services of canoes and other human assistance has been the only way out. All road users are hereby cordially adviced to plan their trips avoiding that stretch for their safety and convenience. Stay tuned for more updates.<\/p>\n<p>Below are highlights from the Otorkpolu Bridge in the Krobo Land area on the Odumase to Asesewa highway as the bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/04a2abd84e764f138685090a978ec75e\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0b2e0b034f674a41b8e8035f1acf35ef\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/b8c43a05fc1e40a5b0db19f40999ab37\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/a2c853fbc8a4413e852b43287ddbc905\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4d1bf39c026b4526953dd6d9a91e381e\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2818c18d511c41c28a75b823b923d9d1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We call on the leaders and stakeholders to swiftly fix the bridge to enable easy movement of people and goods.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Newsflash (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nKrobo<br \/>\nKrobo Land<br \/>\nOtorkpolu Bridge<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men and women in the part of Krobo battle for survival after days of heavy Downpour resulting in flood and collapsing bridge that connects neighboring communities. The Otorkpolu Bridge in the Krobo Land area on the Odumase to Asesewa highway has been partially submerged by water after continuous heavy downpour in the Eastern Region which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1215717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1075,2019,895,698,13888,2217,24250,7676],"class_list":["post-1215716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-battle","tag-carry","tag-heavy","tag-men","tag-rainfall","tag-survival","tag-swim","tag-wives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215716","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=1215716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}