CALABAR, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from south-eastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a doctor said on Tuesday.
The boat left on Friday from the remote town of Oron, in Cross Rivers state, and was heading across the Gulf of Guinea to Gabon, in central Africa, when it capsized 40 nautical miles offshore, emergency services and traders said.
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