{"id":13823,"date":"2022-01-16T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/77-year-old-man-drowns-in-dowa"},"modified":"2022-01-16T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:21:30","slug":"77-year-old-man-drowns-in-dowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/77-year-old-man-drowns-in-dowa","title":{"rendered":"77-year-old man drowns in Dowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A 77-year-old man identified as Liyaya Million has died after drowning in Mtiti River in Dowa District Public Relations Officer for Mponela Police Station sergeant Macpatson Msadala has confirmed and said that the incident occurred on January 15, 2022 around 06:00 hours at Kameta Village, Traditional Authority Dzoole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn January 13, 2022 at around 05:00 hours, he left home for his garden through Mtiti Bridge as usual, but he did not return and it was raining heavily that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis relatives suspected he had drowned because the bridge he used to cross when going to the garden was washed away. They commenced a search and today he was found floating in the same river near the same bridge,\u201d said Msadala.<\/p>\n<p>Msadala further said that the scene of crime was visited by Police detectives accompanied by medical practitioner. Postmortem revealed that death due to suffocation secondary to drowning.<\/p>\n<p>Million hailed from Kameta Village, Traditional Authority Dzoole in Dowa District. Meanwhile, Police continue advising people to take all necessary measures when crossing rivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. A 77-year-old man identified as Liyaya Million has died after drowning in Mtiti River in Dowa District Public Relations Officer for Mponela Police Station sergeant Macpatson Msadala has confirmed and said that the incident occurred on January 15, 2022 around 06:00 hours at Kameta Village, Traditional Authority Dzoole. \u201cOn January 13, 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,25,8],"tags":[233,371,284,744,234,375],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-featured","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-death","tag-dowa","tag-malawi","tag-rain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>77-year-old man drowns in Dowa - 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