JUST IN: 30 Reported Dead In Niger Boat Accident
MAD News 
Thirty persons have been reported to have drowned after an overloaded boat capsized in Niger state.
The boat ferrying 100 local traders split into two after hitting a stump during a windstorm as they were returning from a market on Saturday, the spokesperson for Niger State emergency agency, Ibrahim Audu Hussein, confirmed to AFP.
“So far 30 bodies have been recovered and five are still missing,” Hussein said on the accident that occurred at Tijana village in Munya district.
“Sixty-five passengers were rescued with the help of local divers,” he said.
Heavy rains were hampering the search but divers were “braving the odds”, Husseini added.
