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28 passengers perish in boat mishap, 7 missing

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28 passengers perish in boat mishap, 7 missing

 

No fewer than 28 persons have lost their lives in a boat mishap in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, north central Nigeria.

The Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Ahmed Inga, confirmed the tragic incident in a statement in Minna on Sunday.

Inga said the occupants of the boat were 100 passengers, coming from Zumba, Tija village of Munya Local Government Area of the state.

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He said the incident happened on Saturday, May 8, at about 6pm, 50 metres to their destination when the boat hit a stump of a tree and broke.

According to him, 65 people survived, 28 corpses recovered by local divers while seven people were still missing.

The director general, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said search and rescue operation was still ongoing to recover the missing persons.

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