Boat Mishap: Waterways authority rescues two sand miners

The National Inland Waterways Authority, Calabar Area Office, has rescued two sand miners whose boat capsized on transit.

Bola Oyebamij, managing director of agency, said this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos.

Mr Oyebamij said that the agency, while on routine water patrol at about 5.00 p.m. on Monday, 4 November, received a distress call about sand miners who were overtaken by rough tidal waves along the Calabar channel.

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