Timothy Ojomah, the commissioner for agriculture and food security in Kogi state, has stated that search and rescue operations are ongoing in the state’s on-going boat accident.
About 11 corpses were recovered from the accident, according to Ojomah, who was a guest on Thursday’s episode of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief program.
The traders were attempting to enter the Ilushi market in Edo State to sell their food items and purchase some goods for the October 1 holiday.
Unfortunately, the boat broke when they arrived in the middle of the river, forcing about 82 people to flee.
He claimed that NEMA and Edo State immediately responded to the incident after distress calls were made out of the situation.
He continued, “Among this number, 82 survived, and about 46 were rescued,” adding, “From this number, 82 survived.” I had a conversation with some of the survivors.
They will be searching for more corpses this morning. 11 corpses had been discovered as of yesterday.
The river is large, you know. Therefore, it is expected that others would have drowned if some corpses had already been found and some were already being saved. However, as of yesterday, we had saved 46 of them.
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Source: Channels TV
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