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Local communities mobilise in support of search operations after the boat ferrying more than 100 passengers capsized along the Niger River .
The death toll in the boat accident in North Central Nigeria has risen to 28, emergency services said on Monday, as local communities mobilised in support of an intensified search for dozens still missing.
The boat ferrying more than 100 passengers, mostly women and children, capsized along the Niger River on Sunday morning. They were travelling to their farmlands in the Gbajibo community, located 251km (156 miles) from Minna, the capital of Niger…
