A boat carrying residents returning from a wedding capsized in northern Nigeria killing about 100 people, police and local residents said Tuesday, as a search for survivors intensified.

More than 100 killed after boat capsizes in Nigeria. Rescue operations are still under way after boat accident on the Niger River kills more than 100 people, police say.

Boat capsizes in northern Nigeria, killing nearly 100 wedding guests Tragic boat accident took place on the Niger River in Kwara state. Associated Press. Published June 13, 2023 1:45pm EDT.

Over 100 Missing in Nigeria After Boat Capsizes. Published Nov 29, 2024 at 12:33 PM EST. By . ... Rescue workers carry a victim of a boat accident in Kebbi, Nigeria, May 27, 2021.

An overloaded wooden boat ferrying nearly 300 wedding guests across the Niger River in a remote part of Nigeria split in half and capsized, leaving at least 106 people dead, including children.

Hundreds of people, including wedding guests, are feared dead in north-central Nigeria after a boat they were traveling in capsized in the river Niger early Monday, a local chief told CNN on Tuesday.

At least fifteen people have died after a boat capsized in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto State on Tuesday, authorities told CNN. A police spokesman, Sanusi Abubakar, told CNN on Wednesday that ...

MAIDUGURI and LONDON -- The death toll from a capsized boat that was carrying wedding guests in Nigeria has risen to more than 100, authorities said Wednesday. The wooden boat overturned early ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — At least 27 people were killed and more than 100, mostly women, were missing on Friday after a boat transporting them to a food market capsized along the River Niger in northern ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A boat carrying mostly farmers capsized on a river in northwest Nigeria, drowning at least 40 people, President Bola Tinub u said Sunday.