MADRID 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least 60 people have died and several dozen more are missing after the capsize of a boat with about 300 passengers in western Nigeria, in Niger state, according to local authorities, who have explained that the victims were on their way to celebrate. a religious festival.
The ferry had left from Mundi town and was heading towards Gbajibo. It sank on Tuesday night for reasons that have not been revealed and the emergency services have only confirmed 150 survivors, while the number of bodies recovered now amounts to 60, according to sources cited by the Nigerian newspaper ‘Guardian’.
The authorities are now trying to locate the missing in search tasks that are still open, so the number of victims is not definitive. These types of incidents are relatively frequent in the Niger River, one of the longest in Africa.
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