{"id":914764,"date":"2022-01-09T12:41:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/09\/man-drowns-in-a-family-irrigation-reservoir\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T12:41:11","slug":"man-drowns-in-a-family-irrigation-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/09\/man-drowns-in-a-family-irrigation-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Man drowns in a family irrigation reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mvmfnsb7tupalqx7xar61daa8ca046f7.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Covered dead body<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A 21-year-old\u00a0man\u00a0drowned\u00a0in a dam in Mitoto village.\n<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sifuma reportedly slipped into a water reservoir when he went to collect a generator. <\/p>\n<p>The reservoir was constructed by the\u00a0family\u00a0for irrigation during dry spells.\n<\/p>\n<p>Esther Nyambura, mother to the deceased, had finished pumping water and asked Sifuma to carry the machine home.<\/p>\n<p>He failed to return and the\u00a0family\u00a0found his cap and sandals in the water.\u00a0Kiminini OCPD Joseph Tumbo said they are investigating the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433887\/man-drowns-in-a-family-irrigation-reservoir\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covered dead body [Courtesy] A 21-year-old\u00a0man\u00a0drowned\u00a0in a dam in Mitoto village. Andrew Sifuma reportedly slipped into a water reservoir when he went to collect a generator. The reservoir was constructed by the\u00a0family\u00a0for irrigation during dry spells. Esther Nyambura, mother to the deceased, had finished pumping water and asked Sifuma to carry the machine home. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}