At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a doctor said on Tuesday.
The boat left on Friday from the town of Oron, in Akwa-Ibom state, and was heading across the Gulf of Guinea to Gabon, in central Africa, when it capsized 40 nautical miles offshore, emergency services and traders said.
A doctor at a hospital in the coastal town of Calabar said they had received 45 bodies of passengers who had drowned.
David Akate, head of Cross Rivers emergency services, said he had no official death toll yet. Two known survivors were a young boy and a woman who had clung to a gas cylinder and were rescued by fishermen, he added.
Yushua Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, said they could only confirm nine dead so far.
“They are mostly … traders from the southeast who headed to Oron to board the wooden boat,” said Ikechukwu Egwu, a marine transporter in the area.
Boat accidents are relatively common in Africa, where safety standards are poor. As many as 138 people died when an overloaded boat carrying passengers and goods capsized in rough water on a river in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010.
Some 35 people taking this route from Nigeria to Gabon died after their boat sunk off the coast of Cameroon in 2008.
Source: Reuters
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God oooooooo….pls come to our rescue
Where is Massob? Why won’t they threaten God?
Hmm another titanic. may soul rest in peace.
Na waooo
O God! Rest der soul
Wots happenin in dis country Nigeria, dis regime dat is ruling us der need serious deliverance oooooh•
Wat is really hapnin in naija? Hmmmmm,may God com 2our rescue.quite a pity
Yet another SAD event…
May the souls of the deceased RIP..AMEN
May their soul rest in peace with the LORD AMEN
Bad news again, u can’t hear gud news in dis country xpect death, may almighty God rescure us ooo
Na 2dy? If dis na breakin nus 4naija, wetin we go com call all of dem wey d bokos dey haram lik suya 4naija? Dat wan na wetin? dismantling news abi? Or na wetin we go cal am infomatn nigeria? or una b jjc 4here?
Nah wah 4dis 9ija o
D prayr b say mak God dey protct dose wey remain 4 ground
Causes: poor infrastructure, bad policies, corruption, greedy, and bad leaders.
May God spare their life in jesus
May God spare their life in jesus
May God spare their life in jesus
When will the deaths stop?
When will the deaths stop?
When will the deaths stop?
What a tragedy.calamity every were.bus explosion in kano.now another titanic boat in nigeria.no were is safe.GOD hav mercy.
Nawa 4 some people,even when dia is bad news they will “like” d news…abi una be vampire? May God av mercy on all of us
Nawa 4 some people,even when dia is bad news they will “like” d news…abi una be vampire? May God av mercy on all of us
Nawa 4 some people,even when dia is bad news they will “like” d news…abi una be vampire? May God av mercy on all of us
May their souls rest in peace Amen..
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May there soul rest in perfect peace
Y is it only bad news dat u pple publish
When dis can thing go stop for niga
Abdullahi uthman or wat ever it’s better 2b umiliated by God dan 2b umilliated by man lik u an ur socalled bhram animals lik u.
boko haram here,there diseater here n there as wel wat a life wat meaneth these!