About eighteen persons have died after a boat they were commuting in capsized at Zango Majiya village in Itas-Gadau Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
The incident
was said to have occurred on Thursday, November 13 when one Nuhu Kaila of Zango
Majiya village ferried 23 people who were heading to their farms. The boat was
overcrowded forcing it to capsize.
Confirming
the incident to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP
Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said medical doctors in the state certified 18 persons
dead while 5 were rescued.
Wakili said
upon receiving the report of the unfortunate incident, the Divisional Police
Officer of Itas Gidau station and a team of policemen rushed to the scene where
corpses were removed from the river and taken to General Hospital Itas, for
postmortem examination.
The police
spokesperson gave the names of the deceased as: Abdulraham shehu ‘m’ aged
20yrs, Suwaiba Yusuf ‘f’ aged 12yrs old, Saude Abdulkarim’ F ‘aged 14yrs old,
Fatima Maigari ‘f’ aged 10yrs, Zuwaira Maigari ‘f’ aged 10yrs, Hari Maigari ‘f’
aged 9yrs, Hussaina Maigari ‘f’ aged 8yrs.
Others are;
Ummani Abdulkarim ‘f’ aged 15yrs, Halima Saminu ‘f’ aged 15yrs, of Gidan Ganji
village, Najaatu Hamza ‘f’ aged 15yrs, Nura Abdullahi ‘m’ aged 25yrs, Yahuza
Abdullahi ‘f’ aged 12yrs, Hafsa Abdullahi ‘f’ aged 11yrs, of Majiya village.
Sadiya
Hashimu ‘f’ aged 10yrs, Khadija Alhassan ‘f’ aged 15yrs, of Gwarai village,
Amina Idris ‘f’ aged 15yrs, Kaltime Hudu ‘f’ aged 14yrs, Furaira Malam Magaji
‘f’ aged 14yrs, of Zangon Majiya village who were all drowned in the river and
died on the spot.
He added that
the boat driver, one Aisha Adamu ‘f’ aged 16yrs, Umaru Adamu ‘m’ aged 30yrs
were rescued unconscious.
He said the
corpses have been deposited at the General Hospital Itas for postmortem
examination.
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