{"id":55250,"date":"2024-10-23T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/3-feared-dead-in-adamawa-canoe-mishap\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:04:48","slug":"3-feared-dead-in-adamawa-canoe-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/3-feared-dead-in-adamawa-canoe-mishap\/","title":{"rendered":"3 feared dead in Adamawa canoe mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One person has been confirmed dead and two others missing after a canoe mishap in Borong, a riverine community in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered Wednesday morning that the accident happened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the passengers, Umar Musa, said the canoe hit a piece of wood in the river, causing panic among passengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome passengers jumped into the water while others, like me, stayed in the canoe and were rescued,\u201d Musa said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that one of the three persons who jumped into the water was found dead and the two others were missing.<\/p>\n<p>Another passenger, Abubakar Shuaibu, expressing concern over the incident, said many passengers wanted to jump into the water when the canoe hit the wood, except for an earlier warning.<\/p>\n<p>He said the driver had earlier advised against jumping into the river.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing had been heard about the bodies of the two missing individuals by the time this report was filed just before 11 am Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>3 feared dead in Adamawa canoe mishap<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been confirmed dead and two others missing after a canoe mishap in Borong, a riverine community in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4466,384,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adamawa","category-metro","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55250","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=55250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}