{"id":21300,"date":"2024-02-29T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=21300"},"modified":"2024-02-29T12:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T12:10:37","slug":"13-year-old-drowns-at-lagos-beach-hangout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/29\/13-year-old-drowns-at-lagos-beach-hangout\/","title":{"rendered":"13-Year-Old Drowns at Lagos Beach Hangout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, tragedy unfolded at Alatise beach in the Ajah area of Lagos State when 13-year-old Kelvin Onyengba drowned during a hangout.<\/p>\n<p>Kelvin, accompanied by five friends, went swimming at the beach. Unfortunately, the boy lost his life due to the force of the sea&#8217;s waves.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the incident shared details, stating that the boy&#8217;s mother recounted how the water&#8217;s wave swept her son away. Kelvin had ventured into the water with his friends for a swim and hangout, but he tragically did not return to his parents.<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. Detectives from the area visited the scene, and the family anxiously awaited the emergence of the boy&#8217;s body from the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Hundeyin stated, &#8220;The scene of the incident was visited by detectives from the division while the family was waiting for the body to emerge from the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, tragedy unfolded at Alatise beach in the Ajah area of Lagos State when 13-year-old Kelvin Onyengba drowned during a hangout. Kelvin, accompanied by five friends, went swimming at the beach. Unfortunately, the boy lost his life due to the force of the sea&#8217;s waves. A source familiar with the incident shared details, stating that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21311,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21300\/revisions\/21311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}