At least 22 students drown after boat sinks in northern Sudan

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CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 22 students drowned on Wednesday when a boat carrying more than 40 people sank while crossing the Nile in northern Sudan, state news agency SUNA said.

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Civil defence forces were searching the waters for the missing passengers but had not recovered the bodies, the agency added. A female hospital employee also drowned.

Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz, writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by Sami Aboudi and Matthew Mpoke Bigg

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