{"id":62766,"date":"2025-03-14T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62766"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:21:14","slug":"woman-jumps-into-lagoon-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/14\/woman-jumps-into-lagoon-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Jumps Into Lagoon, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A yet-to-be-identified woman has been found dead after jumping into the Lagos Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge, sparking concerns over mental health awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 4 p.m. near the UNILAG waterfront, with marine police swiftly recovering her body. Despite rescue attempts, she was pronounced dead by UNILAG medical personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Lagos Police spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the tragedy, stating that the woman&#8217;s body has been deposited at the IDH Mortuary in Yaba.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal A yet-to-be-identified woman has been found dead after jumping into the Lagos Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge, sparking concerns over mental health awareness. The incident occurred around 4 p.m. near the UNILAG waterfront, with marine police swiftly recovering her body. Despite rescue attempts, she was pronounced dead by UNILAG medical personnel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62766","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\/62766","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=62766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62768,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62766\/revisions\/62768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}