{"id":13975,"date":"2025-07-28T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13975"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:03:13","slug":"13-dead-several-missing-after-boat-accident-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13975","title":{"rendered":"13 Dead, Several Missing After Boat Accident In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 Dead, Several Missing After Boat Accident In Nigeria
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Thirteen People have died, and dozens have gone missing after a boat carrying 100 passengers capsized on Saturday in Niger state in north-central Nigeria as they reached the market, per authorities.<\/p>\n

About 26 people, mainly women and children, were saved from the wooden boat, per Yusuf Lemu, an officer of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency.<\/p>\n

Another local official, Isiyaku Akilu, stated that the boat driver who was saved could not confirm the exact number of people onboard.<\/p>\n

The exact cause of the accident is yet to be determined; however, it is probably overloading.<\/p>\n

Adamu Ahmad, a member of the boat drivers\u2019 union, confirmed that the boat was overloaded.<\/p>\n

He also added that it was a large wooden boat and that boat accidents have become frequent in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

As efforts are being made to recover the bodies, this incident happened just 9 months after a boat carrying mainly women and children coming from a festival capsized and killed 60.<\/p>\n

Rescue missions were briefly paused on Sunday to enable the custodian of the river to perform rituals ensuring a safe and successful rescue mission, said Akilu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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13 Dead, Several Missing After Boat Accident In Nigeria Image for representation purposes only. Thirteen People have died, and dozens have gone missing after a boat carrying 100 passengers capsized on Saturday in Niger state in north-central Nigeria as they reached the market, per authorities. About 26 people, mainly women and children, were saved from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,196],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-13975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-insight","category-shipping-news","tag-marine-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}