No fewer than 38 people have been feared drowned following a boat mishap in River Kirfi in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Monday.

The Chairman, Caretaker Committee of Kirfi Local Government, Abdu Danmalikin Bara, revealed this while speaking with journalists.

The LGA Chair said 40 people boarded the ill-fated boat but only two survived after it drowned.

He said,

“I want to commiserate with the people of Kirfi, Bauchi State and Nigeria as a whole over the loss of our brothers on their way to their farms.

“They boarded a canoe – 40 of them on Monday, October7, 2019, and unfortunately 38 of them were drowned. Only two persons survived.

“We discovered only two dead bodies along Badara when we conducted a search and rescue operation. Local experts searched the waterways but unfortunately we didn’t recover any more bodies of the victims. We suspect all of them drowned.”

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He prayed to God to forgive the misdeeds of the deceased.