{"id":60448,"date":"2025-02-04T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60448"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:54:00","slug":"four-dead-13-injured-in-niger-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/04\/four-dead-13-injured-in-niger-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Dead, 13 Injured in Niger Road Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fatal accident on the Agaie-Lapai road in Niger State has claimed four lives and left 13 others injured.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, which occurred on Monday, involved a head-on collision between three trailer trucks, reportedly caused by excessive speeding and a failed overtaking attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The accident also resulted in the deaths of 15 cows and 20 goats being transported in one of the trucks.<\/p>\n<p>The Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Abdullahi Baba-Arah, confirmed the incident, stating that emergency responders were deployed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two victims died instantly, while two others succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. The injured are receiving treatment at Agaie General Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu A fatal accident on the Agaie-Lapai road in Niger State has claimed four lives and left 13 others injured. The crash, which occurred on Monday, involved a head-on collision between three trailer trucks, reportedly caused by excessive speeding and a failed overtaking attempt. The accident also resulted in the deaths of 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60448","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60450,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60448\/revisions\/60450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}