Six children drowned when two boats collided and capsized in northwest Nigeria, the emergency services said on Wednesday.
A passenger boat on the River Niger collided head-on with another vessel carrying onions to a market in the fishing town of Yauri in Kebbi state on Tuesday evening.
Sani Dodo, head of the Kebbi state emergency management agency, told AFP: “We have recovered six bodies of children — five boys and a girl between the ages of five and eight.
“Sixty passengers were rescued and 13 of them have been taken to hospital for treatment from various injuries.”
Divers were conducting a search for 12 other people from the passenger boat who were unaccounted for, he added.
“The boats were sailing in the dark without lights at about 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Tuesday when they collided and capsized.”
The 78 passengers were mostly traders from Suru village, on the…
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