{"id":55483,"date":"2025-09-04T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/60-killed-in-nigeria-boat-accident\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:15:00","slug":"60-killed-in-nigeria-boat-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/60-killed-in-nigeria-boat-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"60 killed in Nigeria boat accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The death toll of the boat incident has risen to 60 and the casualty figure is rising,&#8221; said Abdullahi Baba Ara, chair of Borgu local government area, adding that 10 people were in serious condition and many others still missing.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel and local divers were searching for the victims, according to the Niger State Emergency Management Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred around 11 a.m. local time (1000 GMT) on Tuesday when the overloaded vessel collided with a tree stump and capsized near the Gausawa community in the Borgu local government area.<\/p>\n<p>The boat carried more than 100 people, with women and children being the majority of the fatal victims, said Sa&#8217;adu Inuwa Muhammad, the district head of Shagumi.<\/p>\n<p>Boat accidents, often caused by overloading, adverse weather, and operational errors, are common in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-93809\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aa-15.jpg\" alt=\"At least 60 people were killed and dozens rescued after a boat capsized in Nigeria&#039;s north-central Niger State, local authorities said on Wednesday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 60 people were killed and dozens rescued after a boat capsized in Nigeria&#8217;s north-central Niger State, local authorities said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000093808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000093808,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bo.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55483"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55483"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}