Nigeria’s Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) says 18 persons, including a family of six, died in a boat mishap which occurred on River Niger at Kokoli village, Agwarra Local Government Area of the state.
Alhaji Mohammed Shaba, the Special Adviser to the Governor in charge of NSEMA, made this known to in a telephone interview in Minna on Saturday.
Shaba said that the boat was conveying 80 traders and their children and to Kokoli village after the weekly Thursday market in Ulakami village when the accident occurred around 4 p.m.
The boat reportedly broke into two parts at the middle of the river and the boat, with all the passengers and its driver, sank.
