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Nigeria boat accident kills 26

A boat accident on the Niger River in southern Nigeria has killed at least 26 people in a region particularly at risk of heavy flooding during the rainy season. [File, Stadard]

A boat accident on the Niger River in southern Nigeria has killed at least 26 people in a region particularly at risk of heavy flooding during the rainy season.

Traders were taking the boat from an area in Kogi State to a market in Illushi in Edo State on the other side of the riverbank when the accident happened on Tuesday, authorities in Kogi State said.

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