Three die as boat capsizes in Adamawa

Three people have drowned following a ship accident in Adamawa State.

The three, two men and a lady , met their death along a river in Lamurde, an area government area on Adamawa’s border with Gombe State.

Names of the deceased got simply as Isaac G, James S, and Melody M.

They, along side other passengers, were said to get on their way for a funeral ceremony when the boat conveying them capsized.

Lamurde may be a riverine community with a history of occasional flooding and water-related accidents.

Confirming the incident, Chairman of Lamurde government Area, Burto Williams, said Lamurde needs intervention urgently.

“The accident may be a tragedy that needs government to return to the help of the people of the world who are constantly being ravaged by cascading water,” he said.

He added, however, that his council was providing medical treatment for survivors of the boat accident, even as the council will foot the bill of the burial of the dead.