{"id":47424,"date":"2023-01-25T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/8-school-children-killed-after-boat-capsizes-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:16:35","slug":"8-school-children-killed-after-boat-capsizes-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/8-school-children-killed-after-boat-capsizes-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"8 school children killed after boat capsizes in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) told the media that the eight &#8212; five boys and three girls aged five to 12 &#8212; were among 20 pupils who were on their way to school in Wayokope, a community across the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Wudonyim, a coordinator of NADMO, said the Marine Police Unit of the Ghana Police Service, assisted by some locals, have recovered the bodies of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are underway to find out the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{ACCRA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; Eight school children in Ghana&#8217;s Bono East Region were killed Tuesday after the boat taking them to school capsized on the Volta Lake, officials confirmed.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47424"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47424"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}