OVER l30 farmers lost their lives, mostly women, while several others are missing in a mishap involving a passenger boat in Gbajibo Community, Mokwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State.
Sources said the victims were from Gbajibo, Ekwa and Yankeiade, all in Mokwa LGA.
Chairman, Mokwa LGA, Jibrin Abdullahi Muregi, confirmed the incident, saying 37 corpses had so far been recovered by local divers as at 2pm sunday.
He added that efforts were ongoing to rescue the remaining victims.
This newspaper gathered that the incident happened on Sunday morning.
Officials of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, however, said they were collecting data to know the number of people involved but confirmed the incident.
Our correspondent could not establish the number of passengers on board as at the time of filing this report.
