School children drown at the Nile

khartoem - More than twenty school children between the ages of seven and sixteen drowned in waters along the Nile River in Sudan when their boat sank on the way to school. About forty students were on their way to school through an area along the Nile that had been flooded by heavy rains.

When their boat landed in a current and was dragged along, the children panicked and the craft went down, a teacher told the BBC. The bodies of the victims are sought. The drama occurred in northern Sudan, an estimated 750 kilometers from the capital Khartoum.