More than 100 people, mostly women and children, were missing after an overloaded boat bringing them back from an Islamic festival at night capsized in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said Wednesday.
The locally made boat, whose capacity was 100 passengers, had about 300 people onboard along the Niger River when it overturned in Niger state’s Mokwa district on Monday night, according to the Niger State Emergency Management Agency.
This is the fourth tragedy involving more than 100 passengers in northern Nigeria since mid-2023, many of them never accounted for.
“The boat was not supposed to carry more than 100 persons, but there were almost 300 people on it.
And that was what resulted in the breakage of the boat,” said Salihu Garba, director of relief and rehabilitation at the state emergency services...
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