{"id":11009,"date":"2024-01-08T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/anambra-boat-mishap-8-dead-38-survivors-4-missing-niwa\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:03:19","slug":"anambra-boat-mishap-8-dead-38-survivors-4-missing-niwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/anambra-boat-mishap-8-dead-38-survivors-4-missing-niwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra boat mishap: 8 dead, 38 survivors, 4 missing \u2013 NIWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, has confirmed that eight passengers died in the boat mishap that occurred at Umumu Anam in Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also said 38 persons were rescued, adding that 50 passengers were on board the ill-fated boat.<\/p>\n<p>Going by NIWA\u2019s figures of eight deaths and 38 survivors, it means that four persons are still missing or could not be accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NIWA, Jibril Darda\u2019u, the incident that occurred in the morning hours of Friday involved a passenger boat travelling from Ida in Kogi State to Onitsha in Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that preliminary reports indicated that the wooden engine boat rammed into a snag on the water channel and capsized with about 50 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>NIWA explained that upon receipt of the sad report, relevant personnel from the Marine Department were deployed for rescue, recovery and proper investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anambra boat mishap: 8 dead, 38 survivors, 4 missing \u2013 NIWA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA, has confirmed that eight passengers died in the boat mishap that occurred at Umumu&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4275,8505,384,15,8450],"tags":[59,1626,387,2985,180,8451],"class_list":["post-11009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anambra","category-boat-mishap","category-metro","category-news","category-niwa","tag-anambra","tag-boat","tag-metro","tag-mishap","tag-news","tag-niwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}