Yesterday, we reported about the tragic Kaduna boat
mishap with five secondary school students declared
missing after a boat capsized in a river in Kaduna state,
North West Nigeria.
Now, local divers have recovered two bodies of the five
students from a Private Secondary School who drowned in
the Kaduna River, while others are still missing.
The victims are reported to have slipped from an old barge
and plunged into the water while on excursion at a
waterworks facility at the Kaduna River in the state capital.
According to the Executive Secretary of the State
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), a search-and-
rescue operation is on to find the missing students.
The incident was said to have occurred on Wednesday
afternoon.
The Executive Secretary of Kaduna State Emergency
Management Agency, Ezekiel Baba-Karik who confirmed
the incident to Channels TV, said the victims, from a private
secondary school in the state capital, were on an excursion
at River Kaduna when the incident occurred.
Comments
Post a Comment