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<\/p>\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred on Friday during a boat journey from Zabarmari to Dusuman settlement.<\/p>\n
Bulama Maidamma, the ward Head of Zabarmari, who confirmed the incident, told NAN that two females and four males died while three among the passengers were rescued.<\/p>\n
Maidamma said, \u201cThe two females boarded the boat from Budum area, some of them were heading to Dusuman for the Jummat prayers while others went to attend funeral of a relative.\u201d<\/p>\n
He attributed the incident to the heavy wind with sandstorm which lasted for about 30 minutes on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boat capsized at the deeper point of the river. Most of them drowned because they could not swim and were not putting on life jackets.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsequently, we mobilised divers to go in search of them. They were able to rescue three passengers including the driver on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the ongoing search of the six others took us until Saturday evening to recover their bodies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Malam Muhammed Labo, a local in Dusuman, told NAN that his brother who was a GSM technitian was among the victims.<\/p>\n
Labo said his brother went for a funeral of a relative at Dusuman.<\/p>\n
Also reacting, Mr. Bashir Garga, the National Emergency Management Agency, Northeast Zonal Coordinator, confirmed the incident to NAN.<\/p>\n
Garga said that most of the passengers were returning from Jummat prayers when the incident happened on Friday.<\/p>\n
Malam Bello Danbatta, the Head of Emergency Response of the State Emergency Management Agency, said the incident was reported late to the management.<\/p>\n
Danbatta said the agency had mobilised it personnel to the scene to ascertain the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n
When contacted, the Police Public Relations, Borno Command, Mr Edet Okon, said he was yet to be briefed of such development, adding that he would comment after full investigation.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Local divers have recovered six bodies out of nine people involved in a boat accident at Zabarmari area in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred on Friday during a boat journey from Zabarmari to Dusuman settlement. Bulama Maidamma, the ward Head of Zabarmari, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-45765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-maiduguri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}