Nigeria : Woman loses four children in boat accident as two other men die by drowning

By George Onah
Port Harcourt—A woman lost all her four children by drowning in a midday horror when the boat they were traveling in capsized along the Opobo/Kono waterways, even as the mother of the children swam to safety without being able to save any of the children.

Vanguard learnt that their death brings to five the number of children the same woman would be losing through drowning. They were said to be traveling from Epellema Community in Opobo/Nkoro Council to Port Harcourt on holiday.

Two other men who boarded the boat at Opobo as it sailed from Epellema also got lost in the sea bringing to six the number of persons who lost their lives, last Sunday, in that single tragedy, which sent Opobo Town into deep mourning….

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