COTONOU (Reuters) - At least 18 people, most of them children, drowned after the overloaded boat carrying them sank in a river north of Benin's commercial capital Cotonou, officials said on Monday.
The boat was taking passengers across the Hأ©أ©lou River to a market in the town of Togba when it capsized late on Saturday night.
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