{"id":130725,"date":"2024-09-11T23:04:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims"},"modified":"2024-09-12T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:32:11","slug":"flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims","title":{"rendered":"Flood: Borno SEMA rescues 719 victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has rescued 719 victims from the flood that ravaged Maiduguri and Jere areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of the agency, Mohammed Barkindo, made this disclosure while giving an update on the flood as it entered its second day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barkindo explained that the victims were trapped on rooftops, trees, and upstairs in various locations around the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSEMA went with divers and rescued 719 people trapped in trees and upstairs, taking them to their chosen locations. The rescue operations started yesterday and continued up to this time today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe documented their contacts to check on their well-being since they were taken to private residences, where they insisted on living with their relatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually all those we rescued, especially along Lagos Street, said they preferred to stay with their relatives, while the rest also suggested better options. None of the 719 was taken to the camp,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the divers\u2019 improvised rescue facilities, such as ropes, tubes, and other materials, were used to carry out the operation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has rescued 719 victims from the flood that ravaged Maiduguri and Jere areas of the state. The Director-General of the agency, Mohammed Barkindo, made this disclosure while giving an update on the flood as it entered its second day on Wednesday. Barkindo explained that the victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":130723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[47,722,254,1106],"class_list":["post-130725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-borno","tag-flood","tag-nigeria","tag-sema"],"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>Flood: Borno SEMA rescues 719 victims - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has rescued 719 victims from the flood that ravaged Maiduguri and Jere ar ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flood: Borno SEMA rescues 719 victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has rescued 719 victims from the flood that ravaged Maiduguri and Jere ar ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-11T22:04:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-11T23:32:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726084908.609015.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Flood: Borno SEMA rescues 719 victims\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-11T22:04:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-11T23:32:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/sm_1726084908.609015.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Borno\",\"flood\",\"Nigeria\",\"SEMA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/flood-borno-sema-rescues-719-victims\",\"name\":\"Flood: Borno SEMA rescues 719 victims - 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