{"id":285359,"date":"2017-01-16T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285359"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:49:39","slug":"barrows-son-dies-after-dog-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285359","title":{"rendered":"Barrow&#8217;s son dies after dog bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seven-year-old son of Gambian President-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Habibou Barrow is reported to have died on the way to the hospital after Sunday&#8217;s incident in Manjai near Banjul.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral has already taken place. Mr Barrow is in the Senegalese capital Dakar ahead of his planned inauguration on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Barrow has two wives and four other children, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elects\u2019s media team confirmed the news to local Gambian news portal Freedom Newspaper on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Habibou Barrow passed away last night after being bitten by a dog. He was the 8 years old son of the second wife of Adama Barrow. He will be laid to rest today at 2 pm,\u201d they quoted an unnamed member of Barrow\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>The President elect in a Facebook post on Monday his &#8220;deepest sorrow&#8221; over the death.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAdama.Barrow.Official%2Fposts%2F228370497620109%3A0&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"517\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven-year-old son of Gambian President-elect Adama Barrow has died after being bitten by a dog. Habibou Barrow is reported to have died on the way to the hospital after Sunday&#8217;s incident in Manjai near Banjul. His funeral has already taken place. Mr Barrow is in the Senegalese capital Dakar ahead of his planned inauguration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":285362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[2692,3109,3110],"class_list":["post-285359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-adama-barrow","tag-gambia-political-crises","tag-gambia-president-elect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}