{"id":72679,"date":"2025-08-11T05:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72679"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:24:17","slug":"two-brothers-drown-in-overflowing-river-in-kuje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/11\/two-brothers-drown-in-overflowing-river-in-kuje\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Brothers Drown in Overflowing River in Kuje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two brothers, Joshua (9) and Samson (12), tragically drowned on Saturday morning while attempting to cross an overflowing river at Robukya community in Kuje Area Council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>Family member Barnabas Iliya said the incident happened around 9:23 a.m. as the boys headed to their family farm.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rainfall from the previous night had swollen the river, creating a dangerous current.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iliya, their father had cautioned them to wait until conditions improved, but they left without his knowledge. The forceful current swept them away.<\/p>\n<p>Local fishermen and residents joined in the search, and the boys\u2019 bodies were recovered around 3 p.m. the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the incident, describing it as a devastating loss to the family and the entire community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Two brothers, Joshua (9) and Samson (12), tragically drowned on Saturday morning while attempting to cross an overflowing river at Robukya community in Kuje Area Council of the FCT. Family member Barnabas Iliya said the incident happened around 9:23 a.m. as the boys headed to their family farm. Heavy rainfall from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-72679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679","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=72679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72681,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679\/revisions\/72681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}