Among the more than 100 people who drowned earlier this week when a boat capsized on the River Niger in central Nigeria were many parents trying to save their children, a survivor tells the BBC.
Mohammed Alhassan, 22, was one of about 300 people traveling on the overcrowded wooden boat in Patigi in Kwara State.
Many were returning from a wedding. But not Mr. Alhassan – he was returning from a market.
He shows no emotion as he returns to the bank of the river where he had managed to swim to safety.
It is low tide when I meet him. The river is still and his gaze is fixed on the horizon.
But as he remembers the parents who drowned with their children, including his sister and her eight-year-old son, the tears come flooding down his face.
“The women remained behind trying to carry their children – some of them had three or four children.
“There were also fathers who died the same way trying to save their kids,” he says.
Had he tried to help save them too, he would have drowned, he says.
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