At least 21 students drown after boat sinks while crossing Nile in Sudan

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News ID: 27507
Publish Date: 22:53 - 16 August 2018
TEHRAN, August 16 - At least 21 students have drowned in the Nile in Sudan after their boat capsized, the country's state-run news agency has reported.

At least 21 students drown after boat sinks while crossing Nile in SudanTEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The boat had been taking them to school in al-Buhaira area. It appears one of the boat's engines stopped working, and the vessel then hit a tree and sank.

The news agency said more than 40 students were on board. Twenty-one drowned, along with a woman who was traveling on the boat on the way to visit her family.

(Source: AP)

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