No fewer than seven
people died on Wednesday in Darei village of Jahun Local Government Area of
Jigawa when two canoes capsized.
An eye witness in the
village, Malam Idris Shuaibu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that seven
bodies had been recovered by some fishermen and local farmers in the area.
Shuaibu said that a
canoe from Darei heading to Girma first capsized and another one that was
trying to drop some passengers at the other side of the river bank turned back
to rescue the drown canoe.
He added that in the
process, the girls in a canoe that wanted to rescue the others who were mostly
teenagers, jumped into the
water due to fear and
got drown too.
The witness although
no one could ascertain the number of passengers in the two canoes, a parent in
the village had been crying that he had not seen his two daughters who boarded
one of the canoes.
The Police Public
Relation Officer in the state, Mr Abdul Jinjiri, had confirmed the incident.
Jinjiri, however, said
that the unfortunate incident only involved a canoe that carried 12 passengers
and that six had died.
He added that their
corpses had been recovered with the help of some fishermen and locals in the
area. NAN reports.
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