{"id":6973,"date":"2008-03-18T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2008\/03\/18\/apapa-crane-tragedy-kills-four\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:28:46","slug":"apapa-crane-tragedy-kills-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/africa\/apapa-crane-tragedy-kills-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Apapa crane tragedy kills four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A faulty crane crushed three dockworkers to death at the terminal on Sunday, and a fourth docker was killed by an ambulance, according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow ENL dockers turned to violent protest after the tragic incidents, claiming a lack of safety equipment and benefits. The dockers reportedly attacked ENL officers and properties, vandalised office equipment and cars, bringing business to a halt.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The commissioner of the police port authority J Uzuagbunam described the incident as a &#8220;sad accident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fatal dockworker tragedy at an Apapa port terminal has turned thespotlight on to concessionnaire ENL Consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6975,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/6975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}