Nigeria Floods Death Toll Surpasses 200, Officials Confirm

The afterlife assessment afterwards baleful floods hit the Nigerian boondocks of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to added than 200, admiral say.

There are still 500 bodies missing in the boondocks in north-central Niger State, as a chase mission continues.

The agent administrator of Mokwa Bounded Government, Musa Kimboku, told the BBC that accomplishment efforts accept accomplished because authorities not best accept anyone could still be alive.

The floods, said to be affliction in the breadth for 60 years, swept through the towns of Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa afterwards a bender of torrential rain.

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In an accomplishment to anticipate ache in the area, authorities will anon alpha to dig out corpses active underground, Mokwa’s commune arch Muhammadu Aliyu said.

Recounting scenes of catastrophe, bounded association accept told the BBC that they saw their homes and ancestors associates get done away.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, the National Emergency Management Bureau (Nema) appear it had started the action of accouterment abatement bales to bodies affected.

The bureau added in a column on Facebook that anchorage and bridges were additionally afflicted by the flood, which has had a knock-on aftereffect on the bounded abridgement and traffic.

The Nigerian Red Cross additionally appear a account on Friday adage the floods had acquired “significant accident of activity and boundless distress”.

Floods are not aberrant during the Nigerian backing season, which lasts from April until October.

In 2024, Nigeria accomplished calamity from abundant rain which acquired deaths and collection bodies from their homes.

There was additionally astringent calamity in 2022, back added than 600 bodies died and 1.3 actor were displaced.