The officials of the Kaduna State Emergency management Agency said it has recovered the bodies of the five missing students of Victory College, Ungwan Yelwa, Kaduna who drowned in the Kaduna River on Wednesday.

The students were on an excursion to a waterworks facility at the Kaduna River when their boat capsized.

Nine of them were said to have slipped into the River but only four were rescued alive.

The bodies were recovered with the help of local divers and have been deposited at the Saint Gerald Catholic Hospital Kakuri in Kaduna.