The police have recovered three bodies of medical students involved in a boat mishap at the Marina Resort, on Saturday, in Calabar.

The sad incident occurred when some students went for a boat cruise as part of activities to mark the yearly Health Week programme of the Nigeria Medical Students Association (NiMSA) hosted by Cross River chapter.

Cross River State Police Commissioner, Gyogon Augustine Grimah, disclosed this, yesterday, while briefing newsmen at the resort.

He said the bodies, including two males and one female, were recovered after three days of rescue effort from both the locals and the Marine Police stationed at the resort waterways.

On keeping the waterways safe to avoid such incident from happening again, Grimah said: “ I will have to excuse myself from that now because it will depend 100 per cent on the policies of the new government, and his Excellency, Senator Bassey Out, is not sleeping on that.

“He is already taking some actions. You can see, the Marina Resort was shot down and that is to tell you that this incident is serious. All the measures to safeguard life and property in this area of the economy are being addressed.”

Meanwhile, NiMSA has accused the management of Marina Resort of negligence and poor management over the boat mishap.

National President of NiMSA, Ejim Egba, said: “This ugly, avoidable and extremely traumatising incident, causing so much anguish to the medical students community nationwide, was as a result of negligence, incompetence and the lackadaisical attitude of the crew members and the management of Marina Resort.”

The state Governor had ordered indefinite suspension of activities involving boat cruising at the resort until further notice.