Five more victims of a boat accident involving women and children fleeing armed gang violence in central Nigeria have been found.
The head of the Niger state emergency agency, Ahmad Ibrahim Inga, told the BBC the bodies of four children and one man were found on Thursday.
Now a total of 13 people have been confirmed dead in the boat tragedy – 10 of them children. Their burials have taken place.
The victims from the village of Galkogo in Niger state were fleeing a deadly attack by gunmen on their community on Tuesday.
Their boat then capsized on a major river. Some managed to escape.
Officials said the boat carrying dozens of people was weak and overloaded.
Armed gangs locally known as bandits have stepped up attacks in northern Nigeria displacing nearly a million people.
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Mozambique experts to investigate ‘resurrection’
A teenager in northern Mozambique who was presumed dead and whose funeral was held in November has turned up in her home village of Lindi.
The community is referring to Eurélia Manuel Benjamim as having been resurrected from the dead, but she says she had just gone away to work on her uncle’s farm for a few months.
A local administrator in Montepuez district told the state broadcaster: “They conducted all the funeral ceremonies – the funeral, third day ceremony and visiting the grave – and the grave has not been breached.”
A team of experts is being sent to Lindi to investigate to see who or what was buried in the grave.
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Source: BBC
