No fewer than 10 persons have been killed in Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State, after an outboard engine boat capsized off the coast.
The Informant247 learned that five out of the 10 victims were from the same family from the Udung Uko local government area of the State.
The victims were reported to have been returning from a fishing settlement, Ine Ataobong in Bakassi Peninsula when they sailed into a fierce storm which capsized their boat with only two persons surviving the tragedy.
A relation of one of the survivors, Mrs Eno Effai who deals on sea foods described the incident as tragic as according to her, there was no life jacket in the boat.
She said: “It is really so sad. The sea has been so rough this period. Many people have lost their lives in the sea while travelling to Mbo or Oron. And this particular one is really sad in the sense that a family of five including the mother and school children were involved in the mishap.”