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FIVE persons were said to have drowned in the River Benue section of Taraba State following a boat accident on Saturday.
The incident occurred when a boat carrying 14 passengers from Mayo-Reniwo village in the Ardo-Kola Local Government Area to a village in Karim-Lamido Local Government Area capsized midway into the journey. Taraba State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abdulahi Usman, told newsmen in Jalingo that the boat was carrying 14 passengers when the incident happened.
According to him, while nine of the passengers were successfully rescued, five other passengers were missing and might have drowned.Our correspondent gathered that one of the five persons missing in the accident is Rev. Shedrack Bako, a pastor with the Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria.
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