{"id":278702,"date":"2024-10-05T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=278702"},"modified":"2024-10-05T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T03:53:28","slug":"more-than-100-people-missing-after-nigeria-boat-carrying-300-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=278702","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 people missing after Nigeria boat carrying 300 sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/440\/44023030.jpg\" alt=\"More than 100 people are missing in Nigeria after a boat carrying mostly women and children capsized\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">MOKWA (Niger state, Nigeria), Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 100 people are missing in Nigeria after a boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in Niger State in the country\u2019s north, authorities have said.<br><br>The locally made wooden boat, with a capacity of 100 passengers, had about 300 people on board when it overturned in the rural Mokwa district, an emergency official said.<br><br>The vessel sank in the Niger River on Tuesday night at about 8:30pm, said Abdullahi Baba-Arah, the director general of Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA).<br><br>The passengers were returning from an Islamic religious festival when the incident occurred.<br><br>Rescue workers and volunteers from Mokwa local government area had rescued 150 people, Babah-Arah said.<br><br>\u201cThe search and rescue operation is still ongoing to locate more survivors,\u201d the NSEMA head added in a statement.<br><br>Local outlet Vanguard News cited a news release from the Council Chairman of Mokwa local government, saying dozens of bodies were recovered.<br><br>\u201cCouncil Chairman Abdullahi Muregi acknowledged the recovery of approximately 60 bodies, while 10 survivors have been found,\u201d Vanguard reported.<br><br>The boat had been travelling from Mundi to Gbajibo for the Annual Maulud celebration when the accident happened, both the local government and NSEMA officials said.<br><br>This would be the second such major disaster in Niger State in 18 months after more than 100 people were killed in another boat accident.<br><br>NSEMA\u2019s Baba-Arah said his agency was investigating what happened during Tuesday\u2019s incident and that the cause was yet to be determined, local media reported. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOKWA (Niger state, Nigeria), Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 100 people are missing in Nigeria after a boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in Niger State in the country\u2019s north, authorities have said. The locally made wooden boat, with a capacity of 100 passengers, had about 300 people on board when it overturned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":278705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278706,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278702\/revisions\/278706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}