{"id":43340,"date":"2026-08-20T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43340"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:05:05","slug":"overloaded-boat-capsizes-in-nigeria-around-40-childrens-bodies-recovered","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/overloaded-boat-capsizes-in-nigeria-around-40-childrens-bodies-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 50 killed, mostly children, as overloaded boat capsizes in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">At least 50 people, mostly children, died after an overloaded boat capsized on Thursday \u200bin Nigeria&#8217;s northwest Sokoto state, witnesses said.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The accident took \u200cplace near Gorau in Goronyo local government area and rescue efforts are continuing, said Abdulkadir Yusuf, an area manager at the National Inland Waterways Authority.<\/div>\n<p>The accident occurred on Thursday morning when passengers were heading either to plant or to harvest rice, said Sarkin \u200cDaji, \u2060a traditional leader in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our local divers recovered the bodies, and the search is still ongoing,&#8221; local resident Nasiru Gorau said.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly boat \u2060accidents are common in Nigeria, where vessels often operate unsafely.<\/p>\n<p>In January, at least 25 people \u2060died when a leaking boat capsized in Yobe state, northeast Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22145,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43340","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"An overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria's northwest \u200cSokoto stat","published_date":"2026-08-20 18:29:26","news_description":"An overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria's northwest \u200cSokoto stat","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43367,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43340\/revisions\/43367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}