Boat accident in Upper Nile's Melut kills 4, injures 10

Melut: Captain arrested after boat accident kills three - Radio Tamazuj

A boat accident in Upper Nile State’s Melut County has killed at least three passengers and injured 11 others, officials and eyewitnesses said Wednesday, as authorities arrested the vessel’s captain. The incident occurred Tuesday evening when a boat ferrying returnees from the border town of Renk to the state capital, Malakal, stopped at a docking site in Melut County. Deng Awer, head of the county revenue commission, told Radio Tamazuj that the…

Boat accident in Upper Nile's Melut kills 4, injures 10

At least four people have been killed and ten others injured following a boat accident in Melut County, Upper Nile State, authorities have confirmed. The State Minister of Information, Peter Ngwojo, told Eye Radio on Wednesday that the incident occurred on Tuesday evening at around 7:00 p.m., while the boat was traveling from Renk to Malakal. According to Ngwojo, the boat was transporting returnees and refugees from Sudan under the facilitation …