Officials suggest the death toll from the disaster could be higher, as many people are missing from the boat that was carrying 100 people.
A boat capsized in north-central
, killing at least two dozen people and leaving many others missing amid a frantic rescue effort, emergency officials have said., drowned while travelling on the wooden boat in the Nigerian state of Niger in the Mokwa district.was carrying more than 100 passengers, according to Zainab Sulaiman, head of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency in the state, suggesting that the death toll could be much higher as local divers searched for survivors.
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