Nigeria Floods Kill 115+ Amid Ongoing Rescue Efforts

More than 100 bodies accept died, and several others abide missing afterwards a torrential cloudburst in the axial Nigerian accompaniment of Niger, bounded authorities said on Friday.

Floods abysmal the boondocks of Mokwa afterwards the rains began on Wednesday night and connected till Thursday morning. Ibrahim Audu Hussein, agent for the Accompaniment Emergency Management Bureau (SEMA), said accomplishment efforts were still beneath way on Friday.

“We accept so far recovered 115 bodies and added are accepted to be recovered because the flood came from far ambit and done bodies into the River Niger. Downstream, bodies are still actuality recovered,” Husseini told the AFP account agency. “So, the assessment keeps rising”.

More than 3,000 houses accept additionally been submerged, he added.

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Mokwa, a bartering boondocks 376 kilometers (233 miles) west of Nigeria’s basic Abuja, is a accepted bartering hub in the accompaniment with abounding traders and abundant assignment cartage generally accustomed appurtenances to added regions in the country.

Nigeria Faces Severe Flood Threats as Dam Overflows and Heavy Rains Batter Multiple States

In Nigeria, the backing division usually runs from April to October. In an anticipation issued on Wednesday by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, abundant storms were predicted for Abuja and 14 of the country’s 36 states including Niger.

Niger, Nigeria’s better accompaniment by landmass, is home to three of the country’s above dams – Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro – which accord decidedly to the country’s electricity grid. A fourth dam is beneath construction.

The accompaniment has been decumbent to calamity in contempo times; in April, baptize appear from one of the dams destroyed added than 5,000 farms in 30 communities including in Mokwa. Bounded account letters appropriate that it was the sixth time a flood had happened in the accompaniment this year.

In 2022, Nigeria accomplished floods which dead added than 600 people, displaced about 1.4 actor and destroyed 440,000 hectares of farmland. Experts accept warned of added acute altitude acclimate patterns due to connected all-around heating.

Last year, the collapse of a dam 20 kilometers (12 miles) alfresco the north-eastern boondocks of Maiduguri dead at atomic 30 people, displaced bags of bodies and led to crocodiles and snakes’ actuality done abroad from the burghal zoo into its environs. Nigerian authorities said it was allotment of the country’s affliction calamity in decades, as 1200 bodies in all died beyond 21 states.