{"id":75677,"date":"2021-05-27T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=75677"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:52:10","slug":"more-than-100-missing-feared-dead-after-nigeria-boat-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/75677-more-than-100-missing-feared-dead-after-nigeria-boat-sinks\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 missing, feared dead after Nigeria boat sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f2\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f2\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f2\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f2\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f2\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/06\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f5-\u06f2\u06f7_\u06f0\u06f7-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 100 people were missing and feared dead after a boat with more than 165 passengers, including women and children, broke up and sank as it was traveling in Nigeria\u2019s northern Kebbi state, officials said Wednesday.<br>Twenty-two people had been rescued and five bodies recovered, including a baby less than a year old, Sani Dododo, chairman of the Kebbi State Emergency Management Agency, told The Associated Press.<br>\u201cWe have two male and two female corpses, while the fifth is that of a baby that is less than one year old,\u201d he said, adding that the mother of the infant had not been identified.<br>Eleven rescue boats and divers were searching for about 138 missing passengers as anxiety grew among relatives of those missing.<br>One passenger rescued from the boat, Shehu Bello, told AP that five children were with him when the boat sank and all of them were still missing, making him incredibly worried.<br>\u201cTwo of the children are mine, while the other three are the children of my brother,\u201d he said.<br>Shehu said the boat broke apart suddenly and then started to sink.<br>It was unclear what caused the boat to break up as it was traveling on the Niger River from Nigeria\u2019s Niger state to the town of Wara in Kebbi state.<br>Boat accidents are common in Nigeria, especially along the Niger River, due to overloading, poor conditions of the boats and collisions with debris underwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 people were missing and feared dead after a boat with more than 165 passengers, including women and children, broke up and sank as it was traveling in Nigeria\u2019s northern Kebbi state, officials said Wednesday.Twenty-two people had been rescued and five bodies recovered, including a baby less than a year old, Sani Dododo, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31,30],"tags":[917,67],"class_list":["post-75677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-world","tag-dead","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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