Nigeria mourns as over 100 perish in boat tragedy.

Recovery efforts are ongoing for dozens of people still missing after an overcrowded boat capsized in central Nigeria, killing at least 106 people. Locals say no government rescue workers have arrived, so they are searching the Niger River themselves. Most of the victims, who included children, were relatives returning from a wedding in the village of Egboti in neighbouring Niger state. Boat accidents are common in Africa’s most populous country, where river transport is a popular mode of interstate travel, due to a number of factors including poor boat maintenance, overloading and sometimes flooding.