{"id":69507,"date":"2025-07-02T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69507"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:26:32","slug":"tragedy-as-11-year-old-almajiri-drowns-in-kwali-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/02\/tragedy-as-11-year-old-almajiri-drowns-in-kwali-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy as 11-Year-Old Almajiri Drowns in Kwali River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An 11-year-old almajiri boy, identified as Nura Bala, has tragically drowned in a river at Gada-Biyu village, Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n<p>According to a resident, Suleiman Bello, the incident occurred when Nura and two other teenagers went swimming.<\/p>\n<p>The boys reportedly jumped into the river from a bridge, but Nura failed to resurface.<\/p>\n<p>Bello said the other boys rushed home to alert residents, who immediately mobilized to the river for a search operation.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s body was later recovered around 6:12 p.m. by local fishermen and has since been buried.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident, Malam Muazu, told journalists that parents had repeatedly warned children against swimming in the river.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed this was the third drowning incident in the area within a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo boys drowned in that same river last year, and now another almajiri boy has died in the same manner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the police confirmed that the incident was not officially reported to the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu An 11-year-old almajiri boy, identified as Nura Bala, has tragically drowned in a river at Gada-Biyu village, Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to a resident, Suleiman Bello, the incident occurred when Nura and two other teenagers went swimming. The boys reportedly jumped into the river from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69507","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\/69507","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69509,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69507\/revisions\/69509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}