{"id":774038,"date":"2022-01-31T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/ug-confirms-death-of-1st-year-student-in-swimming-pool\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:12:17","slug":"ug-confirms-death-of-1st-year-student-in-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/ug-confirms-death-of-1st-year-student-in-swimming-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"UG Confirms Death Of 1st Year Student In Swimming Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/a57c8b3a2bec4e9f924196db75a2eb52\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The University of Ghana has confirmed the death of a level 100 student in the swimming pool at the University\u2019s Sports Directorate.<\/p>\n<p>The male student reportedly \u201cdied around 4:40 pm on Saturday, January 29, 2022, while using the swimming pool at the University\u2019s sports Directorate, in spite of attempts by pool guards to ensure his safety\u201d but he couldn&#8217;t Survive.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement endorsed by the Director of Public Affairs Directorate of the University, Elizier Ameyaw-Buronyah, it was reported that the family of the deceased student has been duly informed about the \u201cunfortunate\u201d incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the body of the now-deceased student has been deposited at the University Hospital while the police investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe assure members of the University and the bereaved family that Management is working together with the police and the University Health Service to investigate the unfortunate incident\u201d, the statement further said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/250653556004487998e9440ca8b16460.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CREDIT : S. A. Kingsley.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: generalconcept1 (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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Ghana has confirmed the death of a level 100 student in the swimming pool at the University\u2019s Sports Directorate. The male student reportedly \u201cdied around 4:40 pm on Saturday, January 29, 2022, while using the swimming pool at the University\u2019s sports Directorate, in spite of attempts by pool guards to ensure his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774038","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=774038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}