No fewer than 13 persons, including two children were brought out dead Wednesday, after a 24-passenger boat capsized at the canal running behind 4th Avenue, opposite 41 Road, FESTAC Town, Lagos on Tuesday night.
A combined team of emergency and rescue workers drawn from different agencies in the state however rescued five persons, while four persons were still declared missing as at press time.
Eyewitness account said the mishap could be blamed on the overloading of the boat, a situation where a boat meant for 15 passengers was carrying 24 persons.
The boat, which was coming from 6th Avenue and heading to 4th Avenue, capsized at the middle of the canal when an obstruction upturned the boat and its passengers into the canal.
The two children who were on board the boat when fished out by emergency workers, clasped their hands together apparently in a bid not to be separated in the murky water.
The bodies of the deceased persons, including a woman and 11 men have since been deposited at IDH mortuary, Yaba, while the five survivors are being treated at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
"Local divers were also mobilised to comb the murky waters in search of victims. As at last night, the bodies of 11 men, a woman and a girl have been recovered. Two kids were among the dead bodies recovered.”
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