Mkpoikana Udoma
Port Harcourt — A boat mishap along Sangana-Port Harcourt waterways has claimed properties worth millions of Naira, as operatives of the Nigerian Navy swung into action to rescue victims.
SweetCrude Reports gathered that the cargo boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, was conveying passengers and goods from Sangana in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State to Port Harcourt.
The boat conveying over 200 passengers on board and goods such as smoked fish, plantains, alcoholic beverages, capsized after hitting a wreck around 10pm on Sunday, near Ituma in Asari Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It took efforts of operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Pathfinder to rescue all the passengers on board, without any casualty.