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The Niger State Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of one person and the rescue of forty-nine others from a boat accident that occurred on Saturday morning in Niger state.
The Director General of the agency, Ibrahim Inga, was the one that made the information known via a phone interview with our source on Sunday in Minna. He explained that the incident took place in Kwata, Zumba community in Shiroro Local Government Area, at 10 am.
He said, “The unfortunate incident occurred at about 10am in the morning on Saturday in Kwatu via Zumba and I have received a detailed report about it.”
Inga said the boat was loaded with passengers and goods and was heading for the weekly market when it hit a tree stump and broke into two.
“The boat had loaded passengers, foodstuff, other farm produce and livestock and they were on their way to the weekly market in the area from Nansa village by the river bank and upstream of Shiroro Hydro Power Dam heading towards Kwata Saturday market at Zumba when the incident occurred,” Inga said.
“Midway into the journey, the boat hit a tree stump and broke into two pieces, thereby leading to the drowning of several numbers of the passengers on board the boat,” he said.
It was, however, learnt that most of the drowned passengers on board the boat were said to have swum to safety while local divers rescued others in the area.
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