Reports from northern Ethiopia say that at least 12 people drowned after their boat sank in the Amhara region.
The wooden vessel was carrying passengers to a funeral on the Tekeze River, which runs along Ethiopia’s border with Eritrea.
The boat was hit by floods and capsized on Saturday.
Twenty-six people are believed to have been on board when the accident happened.
Survivors were taken to hospital for treatment, reports Amhara Media Corporation (AMC)including a “severely injured” child.
It was still unclear on Sunday whether all the bodies of those who died had been recovered from the water.
Work on a disused bridge crossing the Tekeze River was supposed to be completed last month but was delayed, a local official told AMC.
Media access to northern Ethiopia is heavily restricted by authorities.
The region has seen recent clashes between the military and an ethnic Amhara militia known as the Fano.
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