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Nine children have been confirmed dead after a boat transporting them to school on Wednesday, May 10 capsized.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The school children were said to be travelling from Faana to Kelee in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They were between the ages of 8 and 15, our correspondent Joseph Armstrong reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bodies of eight of the kids found earlier were sent to the Korle Teaching Hospital morgue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The body of the 9th child was retrieved on Thursday morning after frantic search by concerned youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Municipal Director of the National Disaster Management Organisation<\/a> (NADMO), Christian Afiadenyo, told Joseph Armstrong that three pupils survived the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said one boy among the pupils was operating the boat before the incident occurred though he is not sure about this information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Afiadenyo said the boy may have been one of the three survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The town is said to have been thrown into a state of mourning since the incident occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: 3news<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nine children have been confirmed dead after a boat transporting them to school on Wednesday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",696,474,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1-300x204.webp",300,204,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",640,436,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",640,436,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",696,474,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",696,474,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1-640x436.webp",640,436,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",696,474,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1.webp",696,474,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weija-boat-disaster-696x474-1-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"General News<\/a>","tag_info":"General News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}