{"id":905,"date":"2023-11-07T14:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/four-dead-others-missing-as-boat-capsizes-in-nasarawa\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T14:04:40","slug":"four-dead-others-missing-as-boat-capsizes-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/four-dead-others-missing-as-boat-capsizes-in-nasarawa\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Four dead, others missing as boat capsizes in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A boat conveying farmers from Ubbe District in Nasarawa Eggon met with a tragic accident while crossing a river at Hunki village of Awe LGA.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers were returning from their rice farm on Monday night when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p>The victims have been identified as Alkali Congo, Shedrack Dauda, Mashack Dauda, and Akolo Moses.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that the bodies of the deceased have been transported back to the village for proper identification by their families.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, confirmed the incident to DAILY POST Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Nansel stated that four corpses had been retrieved by local divers while the driver of the boat was still missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfirmed. It happened yesterday; the farmers were returning from the farm, and the boat capsized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the support of local divers, four corpses were recovered, and one person was rescued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person driving the boat is yet to be found and effort is ongoing to find him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Acting Commissioner of Police sympathised with the families of the deceased and prayed to God to console them in a special way, \u201d Nansel said<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Four dead, others missing as boat capsizes in Nasarawa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat conveying farmers from Ubbe District in Nasarawa Eggon met with a tragic accident while crossing a river at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,1625,15,761],"tags":[1626,1227,1627,1375,1565,764,387,1628,399,180,838,762],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-nasarawa","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-boat","tag-breaking","tag-capsizes","tag-dead","tag-four","tag-headlines","tag-metro","tag-missing","tag-nasarawa","tag-news","tag-others","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}