CALABAR — NO less than
seven people lost their lives in a
rampaging flood as a result of
heavy rainfall in Calabar, Cross
River State, Wednesday night.
The rain, which lasted several
hours, caused severe flooding,
uprooted trees, submerged
buildings and swept away cars
in some parts of the city.
At Abedem, Edim Otop, in
Calabar Municipality, flood
water uprooted trees, which
crashed on a house in a nearby
valley, burying six members of
a family in the rubble.

Mr. Amos Akaniyene, owner of
the house, who was standing
outside, escaped.
However, his pregnant wife,
Ekaete, 30; his two children,
David and Deborah; mother in-law, Iquo Effiong and two other relatives, Samuel and Anthony, were crushed by the rubble of the collapsed building.
Akpan Ubong, a neighbour,
whose house is adjacent to that
of Amos, said flood water
descending the hill at high
speed towards the valley, where their houses are located,
uprooted trees on its path,
sending them crashing down.
He said the home of Amos,
which is directly on the path of
the rampaging flood water, was
crushed along with its
occupants.
It was an emotional scene as the mangled and lifeless bodies
were removed from the rubble
by men of the Cross River State
Fire Service, who rushed to the
scene to help rescue the victims.
Swept under Close to the scene of the collapsed building, a girl, aged about five, was swept away by flood water on Atimbo-Akpabuyo Road into a gully and buried underneath concrete slabs from a destroyed culvert.
Efforts to contact Mr. David
Akate, Cross River State
Emergency Management
Agency, SEMA, were
unsuccessful as his mobile line
was switched off.
A source said the six bodies
were removed from the rubble
of the collapsed building and
deposited at the mortuary of the General Hospital, Calabar.
… kills one, sacks 101 houses in
Kebbi
AUTHORITIES of Arewa Local
Government Area of Kebbi
State said, yesterday, that one
person died while 101
households were sacked by
flood in the area.
“We lost one life to the flood
and 42 persons sustained
injuries,” Chairman of the
council, Alhaji Ahmed Tanko
said in Kangiwa, Kebbi.
He said farmlands were also
submerged by the flood.
Tanko said property worth N23 million were destroyed in nine villages, comprising Bachaka, Yeldu, Dukki, Chibiki, Falde, Kuka Bakwai, Kangiwa, Gumindai and Alwata.
He said that the council would
spend N10 million on the
resettlement of the victims,
adding that the council had also distributed 450 bags of assorted grains to the affected persons and 50 bags to widows.
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Sad News.. RIP to the dead.