{"id":38690,"date":"2024-06-23T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/two-brothers-die-in-niger-boat-mishap\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T18:04:25","slug":"two-brothers-die-in-niger-boat-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/two-brothers-die-in-niger-boat-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"Two brothers die in Niger boat mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A boat mishap that occurred at Kippo village of Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State has killed two brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Media and Strategy, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management in the state, Mallam Habibu Wushishi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Minna.<\/p>\n<p>Wushishi, who said that the incident occurred at 10:00 pm on Thursday, June 20, added that the deceased were fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe deceased fishermen were on board fishing on the river Niger when the boat capsized due to the heavy rainfall and windstorm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dOne of the bodies has been recovered while search and rescue operation is ongoing to recover the body of the other victim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wushishi also disclosed that bandits had simultaneously attacked Lanta, Tunga, Dnakau and Juweedna villages in Erena, Shiroro LGA of the state.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incident occurred at about 5:30 pm on June 20.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner explained that the bandits rustled many cows, sheep and destroyed many houses, rendering over 600 persons homeless.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the displaced persons from the affected villages were currently taking refuge at Erena and Kuta Internally Displaced Persons camps.<\/p>\n<p>Two brothers die in Niger boat mishap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat mishap that occurred at Kippo village of Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State has killed two brothers.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,15,1282],"tags":[1626,5622,2840,387,2985,180,1283,833],"class_list":["post-38690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","category-niger","tag-boat","tag-brothers","tag-die","tag-metro","tag-mishap","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}