Reports from Nigeria say about a-hundred people feared drowned after a boat sank as they were fleeing communal violence in the east of the country have survived.
The bodies of several children have been recovered from the water, but almost everyone else on board managed to swim to safety. An eyewitness told the BBC that people from a village in Taraba state were escaping an attack by a rival community when the captain of the boat was shot dead, causing the vessel to sink.
The bodies of several children have been recovered from the water, but almost everyone else on board managed to swim to safety. An eyewitness told the BBC that people from a village in Taraba state were escaping an attack by a rival community when the captain of the boat was shot dead, causing the vessel to sink.
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