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The official number of deaths after fatal floods that met the Nigerian city of Mokwa on Thursday has increased to more than 200, say officials.
Another 500 people are still missing in the city in the Central -Niger state, but the local official Musa Kimboku told the BBC that the rescue efforts had stopped because the authorities no longer believe that someone could still be found alive.
The floods that have been the worst in the region for 60 years are swinging after pouring rains by the Mokwa district Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa.
In order to prevent diseases in the region, the authorities will soon be buried, corpses in the underground are buried, Muhammadu Aliyu said from Mokwa.
Repetition scenes of the disasterThe residents informed the BBC that they saw how their houses and family members were washed away.
A man, Adamu Yusuf, lost his wife and newborn.
“I watched helplessly how water washing my family away. I survived because I could swim,” he told the BBC.
Another resident, Saliu Sulaiman, said the floods had homelessly and destroyed some of his money business.
“I lost at least 1,500 US dollars on the floods. It was the proceeds from the sale of my farm products the day before. I thought about returning to the room to get it, but the pressure of the water frightened me.”
Some residents said that the floods were so devastating because a nearby dam had burst, but the authorities did not confirm this.
The residents said that the pressure of the flood was so intense that the corpses in the city of Rabba, at least an hour were removed from Mokwa in the city of Rabba.
Musa Kimboku, deputy deputy chairman of Mokwa, said they asked the neighboring villages to “bury any body they find”.
The district manager Mr. Aliyu said that some bodies were not repeatable because they had “walked through the river Niger”.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) announced on Sunday that it started providing aid packages for affected people.
The agency Added in a post on Facebook These streets and bridges were also affected by the flood, which affected the local economy and traffic.
The Nigerian Red Cross too published an explanation on Friday To say that the floods had caused “a significant loss of life and widespread strain”.
Floods are not unusual during the Nigerian rainy season, which lasts from April to October.
In 2024, Nigeria experienced floods due to heavy rain, which caused deaths and drove people out of their houses.
There were also severe floods in 2022 when more than 600 people died and 1.3 million were sold.