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Tragedy in Cote d’Ivoire as 7 girls perish in boat accident en route to Quranic school

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Last Thursday, 7 girls were killed in the wreck of a boat that was taking them to a Koran study school in the southeast of Côte d’Ivoire.

And the local police said today, Sunday, that the accident occurred last Thursday afternoon, when “ten female students of the Koranic school, aged 8 to 12, boarded a boat to cross the Bia River and go to a school located on st. the other side, but the boat hit a tree trunk.” What caused his coup and the death of the girls?

The police statement stated that “the captain of the boat miraculously managed to save 3 girls, but seven of them tragically died in the turbulent waters of the river.” The accident was recorded near the city of Aboisso in Côte d’Ivoire, about 100 km east of Abidjan, the former capital of Côte d’Ivoire.

And local media indicated that the rescuers removed the bodies of seven girls, so the police began to investigate the circumstances of the accident.

Source: AFP.

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