{"id":62305,"date":"2025-03-07T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62305"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:53:16","slug":"man-collapses-dies-during-ramadan-prayer-in-abuja-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/07\/man-collapses-dies-during-ramadan-prayer-in-abuja-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Collapses, Dies During Ramadan Prayer in Abuja Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 52-year-old man, Salihu Byezhe, tragically passed away after collapsing during Subhi (early morning) prayers at a mosque in Gudaba village, Kuje Area Council, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said Byezhe had observed Sahur (pre-dawn meal) before attending the mosque on Thursday when he suddenly slumped mid-prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Worshippers rushed him to a hospital in Kuje, but he was pronounced dead on arrival. Medical personnel cited high blood pressure as the likely cause.<\/p>\n<p>His son, who was present during the incident, accompanied him to the hospital, where doctors confirmed his death.<\/p>\n<p>Byezhe was buried at 10:12 a.m. on Thursday, March 6, in accordance with Islamic customs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A 52-year-old man, Salihu Byezhe, tragically passed away after collapsing during Subhi (early morning) prayers at a mosque in Gudaba village, Kuje Area Council, Abuja. Eyewitnesses said Byezhe had observed Sahur (pre-dawn meal) before attending the mosque on Thursday when he suddenly slumped mid-prayer. Worshippers rushed him to a hospital in Kuje, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62305","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=62305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62307,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62305\/revisions\/62307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}