LAGOS – Eighteen people died when a boat carrying some 70 passengers capsized on the Niger River in central Nigeria, an official said Sunday, a week after 42 perished in a similar incident. "We lost 18 lives. We were told there were about 70 people on the boat," Mohammed Shaba, head of the State Emergency Management Agency, told AFP. The accident, which happened on Thursday, took place as people were returning from a weekly market, added the official. Shaba said it was unclear whether overloading was to blame for the mid-river capsizing but said the vessel was "very old", like many of the boats operating that route. On September 27, a...
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