Tragedy was experienced as an 18-year-old farmer drowned in Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa on Saturday while trying to rescue his cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Jigawa, Adamu Shehu, stated in Dutse on Sunday that the farmer\u2019s cow slipped and fell into the pond while grazing in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farmer took two of his cattle to the farm and let them loose to graze nearby, he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn noticing that the cattle had fallen into the pond, the farmer rushed to its rescue but drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA rescue team brought the cattle out of the pond alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe farmer\u2019s body was, however, not found until Sunday, 11 hours after he fell into the pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe NSCDC examined the body thoroughly, confirmed the farmer dead and handed the corpse over to his parents for burial,\u2019\u2019 Mr Shehu stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tragedy was experienced as an 18-year-old farmer drowned in Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa on Saturday while trying to rescue his cattle. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Jigawa, Adamu Shehu, stated in Dutse on Sunday that the farmer\u2019s cow slipped and fell into the pond while grazing in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsstarlet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}