{"id":19933,"date":"2018-08-05T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19933"},"modified":"2018-08-05T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T21:58:02","slug":"disaster-nine-corps-members-drown-during-picnic-party-in-taraba-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19933","title":{"rendered":"DISASTER: NINE CORPS MEMBERS DROWN DURING PICNIC PARTY IN TARABA STATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nine corps members who were swimming during a picnic party, in River Mayo Celbe, Taraba state, have drowned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The police have attributed their drowning to the sudden increase in the volume of the water.<\/p>\n<p>David Missal, Taraba police spokesman, said the incident occurred on Saturday, adding that seven corpses had so far been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation available to our disposal reveals that 22 youth corps members serving in the state were on a picnic party in River Mayo-Selbe in Gashaka LGA on Saturday when the incident happened,\u201d Missal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were made to understand that while they were swimming, there was a sudden increase in the volume of water which carried nine of them away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have so far recovered seven corpses while the search for the two remaining corpses is still in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florence Yaakugh, NYSC state coordinator, also confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Yaakugh said the search for the other two bodies was still ongoing by the locals in collaboration with security agencies and the NYSC.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16811&amp;ad_type=62&amp;rl=180\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The coordinator said the NYSC would soon have the identity of all the Corps members involved and make such known appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have information indicating that about nine of our Corps members were drowned in Gashaka on Saturday,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, seven bodies have been recovered and we are working with other relevant persons to recover the rest and to identify the persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very sad development and the entire NYSC family in Taraba state is already thrown into deep mourning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19311\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"widget_text widget-1 first panel\">\n<div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine corps members who were swimming during a picnic party, in River Mayo Celbe, Taraba state, have drowned. The police have attributed their drowning to the sudden increase in the volume of the water. David Missal, Taraba police spokesman, said the incident occurred on Saturday, adding that seven corpses had so far been recovered. \u201cInformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[4955,4957,4956,4958],"class_list":["post-19933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-david-missal","tag-florence-yaakugh","tag-nysc","tag-river-mayo-celbe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/corps.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5bv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19935,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions\/19935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}