Two people die in boat accidents in Bayelsa, Nigeria
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
A police officer and a woman died in two river accidents in Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria. According to the state police, cited by Punch, seven passengers were rescued after a boat sank at Abedigbene, in Brass, including Commissioner for Trade Ebiere Jones and a civil defence officer.
A police officer died after a passenger boat capsized on the waterways of Abedigbene, in the Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Seven of the eight people on board were rescued, including the State Commissioner for Trade and an officer from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, according to the Bayelsa police command.
In another accident at around 5:20 am on 7 November at Angalabiri, in Sagbama, a tanker belonging to Sterling Global Oil Limited hit canoes near the shore, killing a passenger, Victoria Abetnigo, after she was transferred to Ebedeibiri General Hospital. Police said her body had been deposited at the Ofoni morgue and an investigation was under way, according to a statement by Bayelsa police spokesperson DSP Musa Mohammed.
