A boat belonging to Oke'ra-Nla Boat Association in the Ajah area of Lagos capsized over the weekend leaving four lives wasted with one person missing.
According to Vanguard, the boat was heading towards Bayeku from Oke-Ira with 22 passengers capsized. according to some witnesses around said the boat hit a stone as it ferried along the waters, other accounts say another boat hit it from behind after the ill-fated boat experienced boisterous water waves which the boat could not control from behind, resulting in it capsizing. Continue...
Seventeen persons were rescued while four bodies identified to be the bodies of some carpenters who ere returning from Ajah after a week long job there were recovered. One person's body is yet to be found. Reports say some of the passengers refused to wear their life jackets because of contracting the deadly Ebola virus.
Meanwhile the owner of the boat as well as the operator of the boat are currently over the weekend leaving four lives wasted with one person missing.
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