10 persons died on Sunday at Otto-Awori Local Council Development Area, LCDA of Lagos State, when a passenger boat conveying them from Idoluwo-Ile Village to Ikotun capsized at Imude area of the council.
The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osayintolu, said 10 passengers were missing after the incident.
He, however, said that five of the dead bodies had been recovered in a rescue operation carried out by his agency and Merchant Navy.
Wasiu Rasak, a Supervisory Councillor in Otto Awori LCDA, told journalists that the passenger boat was conveying people who had gone for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration in Idoluwo-Ile Village to Ikotun when the tragedy occurred.
The boat allegedly capsized when a wave hit it from a Julius Berger Speed Boat taking staff of the company to Under Bridge in Otto-Agbara.
Oke-Osanyintolu lamented that the passengers, who are mostly teenagers, were not putting on life jackets, which made them drown when the boat capsized.