At least 106 of the estimated 250 passengers on board a boat carrying passengers returning from a wedding that capsized on the Niger River early Monday were killed, Kwara Police confirmed in a statement released Wednesday.
A boat carrying passengers returning from a wedding capsized on the Niger River early Monday, according toAt least 106 of the estimated 250 passengers on board were killed, Kwara Police confirmed in a statement released Wednesday. Police say 144 people have been rescued so far.
The passengers were reportedly returning from an Egboti village wedding in Nigeria’s Niger state when the boat sank in neighboring Kwara, near the town of Patigi. The boat had been “suddenly overpowered by river waves and smashed against a tree,” according to a local daily, the Nigerian Tribune.
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