About 100 wedding guests feared dead as boat capsizes in northern Nigeria

Victims, including women and children, were reportedly returning from ceremony

A boat carrying residents returning from a wedding capsized in northern Nigeria killing about 100 people, police and local residents have said, as a search for survivors intensified.

The boat capsized early Monday on the Niger River in the state of Kwara close to neighbouring Niger state, a police spokesperson, Okasanmi Ajayi, said.