{"id":207,"date":"2026-09-23T03:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/?p=207"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:32:49","slug":"six-school-children-rescue-from-flood-in-anambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/six-school-children-rescue-from-flood-in-anambra\/","title":{"rendered":"SIX SCHOOL CHILDREN RESCUE FROM FLOOD IN ANAMBRA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporter : UCHE NDEKE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG-20260922-WA0073-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500085414602481;width:284px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six children have been rescued while efforts are on in search of&nbsp; another one after a shuttle bus conveying them to school on&nbsp; Tuesday morning was carried away by ravaging flood along Ring Road, Nibo in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The heavy rainfall that lasted for several hours caused flash flooding in many parts of the state capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A concerned citizen who raised the alarm in a video showed a school bus trapped in the flood while another bus was seen with some children climbing the roof for safety. A combined team of the Anambra State Fire Service, State Emergency Management Agency and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Enugu Zonal Office, immediately mobilised to the scene in an effort to rescue the trapped persons and vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six of the trapped children were rescued alongside the shuttle driver while search have&nbsp; continued for the last pupil who was carried away by the ravaging flood. The rescued school children have been rushed to hospital for medical attention. Meanwhile, a one-storey residential building collapsed same morning at Aguoye village, Awka, following the heavy rain that is still on as at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Correspondent Uche Ndeke reports that no life was lost in the building collapse while property worth millions of naira were destroyed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter : UCHE NDEKE Six children have been rescued while efforts are on in search of&nbsp; another one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anambra-news","category-southeast-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purityfm1025.net.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}