{"id":70707,"date":"2018-12-18T11:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70707"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:52:17","slug":"9-yr-old-boy-drowns-inside-well-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70707","title":{"rendered":"9-yr-old boy drowns inside well in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9-yr-old-boy-drowns-inside-well-in-Kano.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A nine-year-old boy, Haliru Abdullahi, on Monday drowned in a well at Kofar Kudu in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State.<br \/>\nThe spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident occurred at about 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>He said the deceased was playing along with his friends close to the well when the sad incident happened.<br \/>\n\u201cWe received a distress call in the early hours of today (Monday) from a ward head, Hamza Abdullahi, at about 9:00 am that a boy had fallen into a well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene at about 9:40 am.<br \/>\n\u201cAbdullahi was rescued unconscious and later confirmed dead.<br \/>\n\u201cHis corpse was handed over to the Ward Head, Hamza Abdullahi,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed advised parents, who have wells in their homes, to raise their height and provide them with lids so as to prevent recurrence of such incidents.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nine-year-old boy, Haliru Abdullahi, on Monday drowned in a well at Kofar Kudu in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State. The spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saidu Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident occurred at about 9:00 a.m. He said the deceased was playing along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70708,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,49],"class_list":["post-70707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-kano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707","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=70707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}