A local market vessel en route from Port Harcourt to Akuku-Toru LGA had collided with a barge in the middle of Bukuma River in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
But 99 passengers on board were rescued by Officers of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Commander Bridget Bebia, Base Information Officer in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, said no lives were lost, and most of the passengers’ goods were recovered and secured onboard.
Aniaku quoted the NNS Pathfinder Commander, Commodore Cajethan Aniaku, as confirming the incident, said its personnel stationed at NSS 035, with the support of four gunboats, launched a coordinated and effective search and rescue operation, successfully saving all 99 passengers.
“Due to the swift and organized response by the rescue team, no fatalities or injuries were recorded,” the Navy said.
By Hassan Umar Shallpella
A local market vessel en route from Port Harcourt to Akuku-Toru LGA had collided with a barge in the middle of Bukuma River in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
But 99 passengers on board were rescued by Officers of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Commander Bridget Bebia, Base Information Officer in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, said no lives were lost, and most of the passengers’ goods were recovered and secured onboard.
Aniaku quoted the NNS Pathfinder Commander, Commodore Cajethan Aniaku, as confirming the incident, said its personnel stationed at NSS 035, with the support of four gunboats, launched a coordinated and effective search and rescue operation, successfully saving all 99 passengers.
“Due to the swift and organized response by the rescue team, no fatalities or injuries were recorded,” the Navy said.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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