{"id":714629,"date":"2019-10-02T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/ravaging-flood-kills-young-graduate-in-delta-state\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T08:55:46","slug":"ravaging-flood-kills-young-graduate-in-delta-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/ravaging-flood-kills-young-graduate-in-delta-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravaging Flood Kills Young Graduate In Delta State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_632770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632770\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-632770\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/flood-man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"350\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-632770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooded area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A ravaging flood has swept away a polytechnic graduate identified as Chinedu Igboke in Asaba, Delta state.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate incident occurred after a heavy downpour that lasted for some hours.<\/p>\n<p>Igboke was said to have been killed by the flood, when he missed his step while controlling traffic at Shekinah Love Assembly Street along Okpanam road and fell into an uncovered paved gutter.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, the deceased, who hailed from Ebonyi State, was working as a security guard in a private school along Shekinah Love Assembly Street, off Ralph Uwechue Way, Okpanam Road, Asaba.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also: We\u2019ll Take Proactive Initiatives To Curb Flooding In Oyo: Makinde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWhen he fell into the water, he slammed his head against the concrete walls of the gutter. So he might have lost strength to swim against the tide before being floated helplessly into the tunnel\u201d.<br \/>Saying the school authority where Igboke worked as a security guard, mobilised divers and swimmers to comb Anwai River in futile search of the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect that the body may be hanging somewhere along this tunnel because of blockade inside\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went with them to the river but they could not recover his body\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flooded area A ravaging flood has swept away a polytechnic graduate identified as Chinedu Igboke in Asaba, Delta state. The unfortunate incident occurred after a heavy downpour that lasted for some hours. Igboke was said to have been killed by the flood, when he missed his step while controlling traffic at Shekinah Love Assembly Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ravaging Flood Kills Young Graduate In Delta State - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/ravaging-flood-kills-young-graduate-in-delta-state\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ravaging Flood Kills Young Graduate In Delta State - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Flooded area A ravaging flood has swept away a polytechnic graduate identified as Chinedu Igboke in Asaba, Delta state. 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