{"id":729,"date":"2023-03-03T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=729"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:24:34","slug":"breaking-scores-of-residents-feared-killed-as-explosion-hits-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/breaking-scores-of-residents-feared-killed-as-explosion-hits-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Scores Of Residents Feared Killed As Explosion Hits Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The incident occurred Friday morning at Rumuekpe in Emohua Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The casualty figure is speculated to be more than a dozen, though no official confirmation as at press time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Available information has it that the explosion, which also consumed vehicles, emanated from the tapping point of a pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DAILY POST gathered that a driver had loaded one of the buses at the location with crude oil packaged in bags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Preparing to move the petroleum product away from the scene, he started the vehicle engine which triggered a blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The man and others nearby are among the fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred Friday morning at Rumuekpe in Emohua Local Government Area. The casualty figure is speculated to be more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}