{"id":19694,"date":"2026-04-19T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19694"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:52:12","slug":"5-grade-school-pupils-drown-in-pond-in-marawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/5-grade-school-pupils-drown-in-pond-in-marawi\/","title":{"rendered":"5 GRADE SCHOOL PUPILS DROWN IN POND IN MARAWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FIVE grade schoolers on Thursday drowned in a stagnant water pond in Bgy.<\/strong><strong> Panoroganan in Marawi City .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two of the victims were aged 11, one is 10 years old while the two others were 7 years old. Three of them were boys while the two others were girls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They were declared dead on arrival by physicians at a hospital where a police team and employees of the Marawi City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office brought them for treatment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation showed the five were last seen on Thursday morning on their way to a large water pond, a catch basin of rainwaters, in a secluded area in Bgy. Panoroganan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\"><strong>Villagers told probers that they noticed the victims \u00a0swimming, along with another playmate, at a shallow\u00a0 part of the pond.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While swimming, the children saw a floating junk doorless refrigerator, which they boarded and paddled with their hands towards the deep portion of the pond.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The doorless refrigerator flipped and rolled over sending the victims to the water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:76}\"><strong>The victims tried to swim back towards the side of the pond but failed and they were all drowned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIVE grade schoolers on Thursday drowned in a stagnant water pond in Bgy. Panoroganan in Marawi City . Two of the victims were aged 11,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19697,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19694\/revisions\/19697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}