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About 100 wedding guests feared dead as boat capsizes in northern Nigeria

About 100 wedding guests feared dead as boat capsizes in northern Nigeria

Victims, including women and children, were reportedly returning from ceremony

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

The boat capsized early on Monday on the Niger River in the state of Kwara close to neighbouring Niger state, a police spokesperson, Okasanmi Ajayi, said.

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