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Boat carrying 200 people capsizes in Nigeria
Reuters ^
| 5-26-21
| Reuters
Posted on 05/26/2021 3:20:48 PM PDT by dynachrome
A boat ferrying about 200 people capsized in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi on Wednesday but the number of casualties remains unclear, a state spokesman said.
The wooden boat capsized near Wara, a town on the shores of Kainji Lake, part of the Niger River, said Yahaya Sarki, a spokesman the governor of Kebbi.
It had about 200 passengers on board, coming from the neighbouring country of Niger.
"Bodies are still being recovered. We can't ascertain the number for now," Sarki said."The boat was overloaded, he said. "My brother is among those missing. This is the worst boat accident that has happened in this water."
Many of the passengers were returning from a newly-discovered gold vein in Niger, Wara said.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; ferry; nigeria
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Overloaded and probably not well maintained.
To: dynachrome
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:24:55 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
To: dynachrome
I first read it as Niagara and thought, I bet that water is cold.
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:26:31 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
I wondered if there are any crocodiles in the river.
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:29:11 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: Rebelbase
I first read it as Niagara...Slowly I turned...
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:30:31 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
To: Veggie Todd
Step by step, inch by inch....
Three Stooges fan since 1966.
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:31:57 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
(Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:32:17 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
To: dynachrome
They should be fine since there’s no water in Nigeria.
To: dynachrome
The lust for gold has killed rich and poor for centuries.
This gold violence has got to stop!
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:35:04 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
To: Texas resident
Old vaudeville gag. Abbott and Costello did it too.
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:37:59 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: dynachrome
It’s OK, Biden will buy them a new ferry from the infrastructure bill funding. Maybe some life jackets too.
To: dynachrome
Any princes with $10million in a Nigerian bank on that boat? Looking to help a Nigerian barrister help move his assets, for a small fee and a small fee only
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:41:06 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(Virtue signalling is no virtue)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:47:24 PM PDT
by
hercuroc
To: enumerated
To: dynachrome
It wasn’t Guam so everything is fine!
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posted on
05/26/2021 3:50:26 PM PDT
by
Bayard
To: dynachrome
You can’t swim with pocketfuls of gold. Crocodiles will eat you gold and all, they will pass the gold, since they don’t have precious metal accounts in their IRAs.
To: dynachrome
"Bodies are still being recovered. We can't ascertain the number for now," Sarki said."The boat was overloaded, he said...Now there's a shocker!
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posted on
05/26/2021 4:00:41 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: dynachrome
A tragedy, but probably largely preventable. The boat was probably badly overloaded with a life jacket no where to be found, and life boat ratios south of the Titanic’s. Just a guess.
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posted on
05/26/2021 4:05:08 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
To: dynachrome
200 people...was it a 13’ Boston Whaler?
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posted on
05/26/2021 4:07:39 PM PDT
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking. )
To: dynachrome
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posted on
05/26/2021 4:14:52 PM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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