Police Officer, Female Passenger Die In Separate Boat Mishaps

Two persons, including a serving police officer and a female passenger, have died in two separate boat accidents recorded in Bayelsa State within two days.
The incidents, involving a passenger boat that capsized in Brass Local Government Area and a collision between an oil tanker vessel and canoes in Sagbama Local Government Area, have renewed concerns over safety on the state’s waterways.
The Bayelsa State Police Command, in a statement issued on Saturday by its Public Relations Officer, DSP Musa Mohammed, said seven of the eight passengers aboard the boat travelling from Yenagoa to Akassa were rescued after it capsized along the Abedigbene waterways on Thursday, November 6.
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