No less than 110 individuals have died in floods attributable to torrential rain in central Nigeria, officers have advised the BBC.
The rainfall lasted for a number of hours, mentioned the top of the Niger State Emergency Administration Company (Nsema), Abullahi Baba-Arah.
He added that “surging flood water submerged and washed away over 50 residential homes with their occupants”.
In accordance with Nsema, the Tiffin Maza and Anguwan Hausawa districts of Mokwa city had been worst affected.
Mokwa’s District Head, Muhammad Shaba Aliyu, mentioned it has been “60 years” because the neighborhood had suffered this sort of flooding.
“I urge the federal government to help us,” Mr Aliyu mentioned.
The search and rescue operation remains to be ongoing and plenty of extra individuals are nonetheless in danger, authorities say.
An area fisherman advised the AFP information company that he has been left homeless.
“I haven’t got a home to sleep in. My home has already collapsed,” Danjuma Shaba mentioned.
That is the beginning of the wet season in Nigeria.
Many components of northern Nigeria skilled heavy rainfall and flooding in 2024 which triggered deaths, displacement of individuals and destruction of homes and infrastructure.
The nation additionally suffered extreme flooding in 2022, which compelled round 1.3 million individuals out of the properties and triggered greater than 600 deaths.
Extra reporting from Cecilia Macaulay