At least 20 killed as Mali boat capsizes on River Niger

Twenty people died, including 15 young children, when a boat on the Niger river broke up overnight near the central Malian city of Mopti, officials said Saturday, adding that another 23 people were missing. "We don't know yet why the boat broke up," Commander Dramane Diallo, from the rescue services, told AFP. "Investigations are under way. The boat broke at the stern" in a branch of the river near the village of Koubi, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of the regional capital Mopti, and 210 passengers survived the accident, he said.

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