At least 25 people died because of the floods who hit the Mokua area on Wednesday night in the western part of Nigeria. Heavy rainfall caused extensive floods that “dragged 50 houses” along with the families who lived in them, an emergency management officer said in the state of Niger. He spoke of at least 25 dead and several missing. Workshops of the State Emergency Management Service (SEMA) and volunteers who were mobilized to identify trapped, rescued a mother with her two children, according to the same source. In the past few days, the Nigerian Meteorological Service (Nimet) had warned of the risk of heavy rainfall in 15 of the country’s 36 states. Flooding phenomena are often in Nigeria during the rainy season, from May to September. In 2024 more than 1,200 people died and 1.2 million inhabitants were forced to leave their homes due to flooding in Nigeria, the worst they had […]
Source: News Beast
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