No fewer than seven Guinean schoolgirls drowned Sunday after a pirogue -- a long wooden vessel -- they were travelling in capsized, the
“She and her classmates went to the other side of the Niger river for the first tests for their entry exam into their seventh year” of school.
“They boarded an overloaded pirogue which sank under the weight of passengers and goods,” he said in tears over the telephone. A local source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP the death toll was provisional, and that the search for more bodies was still underway.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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