Not long after a boat capsized in Niger State leaving no survivors,
the same fate yesterday befell boat passengers in Lagos State.
A boat was said to have capsized yesterday on a Lagoon in the Apapa
area of the state leaving at least eight persons, one of them an
11-year-old girl, dead.
According to reports, many of the drowned victims were believed to be
fish traders, who were on their way to Apapa from villages in the
riverine areas of the state.
The boat mishap was said to have happened after the passenger boat
engine developed fault.
It was gathered that about 19 passengers were on board the boat, with
eight of them feared killed, while the 11 others escaped.
It was further gathered that the passenger boat that originated from
Sagbokoji had hardly left the village when the engine of the boat
developed fault.
Some apprehensive villagers and occupants of the boat, who could swim,
leaped into the water and returned to the village, while others
continued with the journey.
The boat operators managed the faulty boat to Apapa area, where it
reportedly stopped and capsized, plunging many occupants into the
river. Local divers and others succeeded in rescuing nine persons.
The acting image maker in charge of the state police command, Damasus
Ozoani, confirmed the incident.
Ozoani said that information available to him had it that only two
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