{"id":419148,"date":"2021-12-01T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=419148"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:37:23","slug":"20-passengers-die-in-kano-as-boat-conveying-school-pupils-capsizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=419148","title":{"rendered":"20 Passengers Die In Kano As Boat Conveying School Pupils Capsizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>No fewer than 20 bodies have been recovered, while many others are still missing following a boat mishap in the Bagwai Local Government Area of Kano State.<br \/>\nIt was learnt that seven people were rescued alive during the incident that happened on Tuesday.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-Passengers-Die-In-Kano-As-Boat-Conveying-School-Pupils.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Daily Trust, the boat, with 47 passengers on board, capsized while ferrying some adults and pupils of Madinatu Islamiyya School from Badau village heading to Bagwai.<br \/>\nThe pupils were said to be going to participate in the Maulud celebration marking the birth of Prophet Mohammed SAW.<br \/>\nConfirming the incident, the spokesman for the Kano State Fire Service, Malam Saminu Abdullahi, who noted that the accident happened at about 9:15pm, affirmed that 20 bodies had been recovered while the rescue operation was ongoing.<br \/>\n&#8220;Only seven persons were rescued while the remains of those that died had been deposited in a hospital,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nPoor visibility was said to be affecting the rescue operation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(SaharaReporters)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than 20 bodies have been recovered, while many others are still missing following a boat mishap in the Bagwai Local Government Area of Kano State. It was learnt that seven people were rescued alive during the incident that happened on Tuesday. According to Daily Trust, the boat, with 47 passengers on board, capsized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[7547,3446,49],"class_list":["post-419148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-boat-mishap","tag-ganduje","tag-kano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/419149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}