An overloaded passenger boat capsized in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, killing 13 people, two of them children, the emergency services said on Wednesday.
“The accident occurred around 7.45pm yesterday in (the neighbourhood of) Festac Town when a wooden boat with some 20 passengers capsized,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency told AFP.
“We have recovered 13 bodies, including two children, from the water while six others have been rescued,” he said, adding that the
boat had a capacity of just 12 people.
The boat was used to ferry people across a small river within the Festac Town neighbourhood.
Overloading on such vessels is common, as ship operators often seek to maximise their profits while downplaying safety concerns.
The Lagos government has aggressively tried to promote water travel around the city of 20 million people to reduce choking traffic, especially between the so-called mainland where most people live and the commercial and business hubs on the city’s islands.
A few ferry services are considered safe with well-maintained boats, but most are ramshackle operations, often in decaying motor-powered canoes run by untrained pilots.
- See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/03/13/13-dead-lagos-overloaded-boat-accident/#sthash.38qClHrQ.
An overloaded passenger boat capsized in Nigeria’s largest city of
Lagos, killing 13 people, two of them children, the emergency services
said on Wednesday.
“The accident occurred around 7.45pm yesterday in (the neighbourhood
of) Festac Town when a wooden boat with some 20 passengers capsized,”
Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency told AFP.
“We have recovered 13 bodies, including two children, from the water
while six others have been rescued,” he said, adding that the
boat had a capacity of just 12 people.
The boat was used to ferry people across a small river within the Festac Town neighbourhood.
Overloading on such vessels is common, as ship operators often seek to maximise their profits while downplaying safety concerns.
The Lagos government has aggressively tried to promote water travel
around the city of 20 million people to reduce choking traffic,
especially between the so-called mainland where most people live and the
commercial and business hubs on the city’s islands.
A few ferry services are considered safe with well-maintained boats,
but most are ramshackle operations, often in decaying motor-powered
canoes run by untrained pilots.
An overloaded passenger boat capsized in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, killing 13 people, two of them children, the emergency services said on Wednesday.
“The accident occurred around 7.45pm yesterday in (the neighbourhood of) Festac Town when a wooden boat with some 20 passengers capsized,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency told AFP.
“We have recovered 13 bodies, including two children, from the water while six others have been rescued,” he said, adding that the
boat had a capacity of just 12 people.
The boat was used to ferry people across a small river within the Festac Town neighbourhood.
Overloading on such vessels is common, as ship operators often seek to maximise their profits while downplaying safety concerns.
The Lagos government has aggressively tried to promote water travel around the city of 20 million people to reduce choking traffic, especially between the so-called mainland where most people live and the commercial and business hubs on the city’s islands.
A few ferry services are considered safe with well-maintained boats, but most are ramshackle operations, often in decaying motor-powered canoes run by untrained pilots.
- See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/03/13/13-dead-lagos-overloaded-boat-accident/#sthash.38qClHrQ.dpuf
An overloaded passenger boat capsized in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, killing 13 people, two of them children, the emergency services said on Wednesday.
“The accident occurred around 7.45pm yesterday in (the neighbourhood of) Festac Town when a wooden boat with some 20 passengers capsized,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency told AFP.
“We have recovered 13 bodies, including two children, from the water while six others have been rescued,” he said, adding that the
boat had a capacity of just 12 people.
The boat was used to ferry people across a small river within the Festac Town neighbourhood.
Overloading on such vessels is common, as ship operators often seek to maximise their profits while downplaying safety concerns.
The Lagos government has aggressively tried to promote water travel around the city of 20 million people to reduce choking traffic, especially between the so-called mainland where most people live and the commercial and business hubs on the city’s islands.
A few ferry services are considered safe with well-maintained boats, but most are ramshackle operations, often in decaying motor-powered canoes run by untrained pilots.
- See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/03/13/13-dead-lagos-overloaded-boat-accident/#sthash.38qClHrQ.dpuf
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