{"id":4156,"date":"2020-01-21T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2021-03-25T22:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:11:44","slug":"4-illegal-miners-trapped-to-death-in-western-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/21\/4-illegal-miners-trapped-to-death-in-western-region\/","title":{"rendered":"4 illegal miners trapped to death in Western region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Western Regional Police Command have\u00a0confirmed\u00a0the death of four illegal miners death on Monday at Obengkrom in the Axim district.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, PRO\u00a0of the Command, said officers at Salma received information that some people engaged in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/01\/83-illegal-miners-arrested-in-dawn-operation\/\"> illegal mining <\/a>have been trapped in a pit when loose debris hanging caved in on them.<\/p>\n<p>The victims have been identified as\u00a0Nicholas Ebiadjoe, 37, Thomas Kwoffie, 30, Comfort Cudjoe, 28 and Monica Mensah, 27.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies have been retrieved and deposited at the Axim Government Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Western Regional Police Command have\u00a0confirmed\u00a0the death of four illegal miners death on Monday at Obengkrom in the Axim district. DSP Olivia Ewurabena Adiku, PRO\u00a0of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/21\/4-illegal-miners-trapped-to-death-in-western-region\/\" title=\"4 illegal miners trapped to death in Western region\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[112,143,207],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apt-environment","tag-galamsey","tag-illegal-mining","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4159,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}