{"id":40681,"date":"2024-07-26T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=40681"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:36:04","slug":"family-mourns-as-woman-dies-after-being-swept-away-by-flood-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/26\/family-mourns-as-woman-dies-after-being-swept-away-by-flood-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Mourns as Woman Dies After Being Swept Away by Flood in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who was swept away by a flood in Mararaba, in Karu LGA of Abuja, has been found dead.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic incident occurred on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, when the woman and her husband were riding on a motorcycle and were swept away by the flood. While her husband was rescued alive, the woman sadly did not survive, and her body was not found until two days later.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating online shows the moment the flood swept them away as onlookers watched helplessly.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on X, the deceased&#8217;s cousin, @TokyosBite, wrote: &#8220;My cousin has been found, but she&#8217;s not with us anymore. She was an amazing soul, a true big sister and a wonderful Ada to the family&#8230; May the Lord grant her eternal rest. This is a painful exit, an unexpected one, a sad one. It could have been any of us &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The incident has left the family and community in mourning, highlighting the dangers of flooding in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who was swept away by a flood in Mararaba, in Karu LGA of Abuja, has been found dead. The tragic incident occurred on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, when the woman and her husband were riding on a motorcycle and were swept away by the flood. While her husband was rescued alive, the woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40683,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40681\/revisions\/40683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}