One drowns, another injured in Niger boat mishap

By Rita Iliya

One person drowned and another was injured in a boat mishap at Nansa village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger.

Alhaji Ahmed Inga, Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), disclosed this in an interview in Minna.

He explained that the agency on Saturday received a report of a boat mishap involving passengers and goods loaded from Nansa village by the river band upstream Shiroro dam.

Inga said the boat was heading towards a Saturday market in Zumba when it hit a tree stump and broke into two midway.

The accident led to the death of one person while another person was injured.

According to him, the search and rescue operation was very slow as the area of the incident was a bandit enclave and rescuers were afraid of being kidnapped.

NAN