Flood death in Nigeria Toll Jump 200 200 | world News

Abuja: Flash Flauding in North-Central Nigeria killed more than 200 people last week, Niger State Humanitarian Commissioner said on Tuesday, while hundreds of people are missing and are feared to be dead.The city of Mokwa was killed with the last night rains with the worst flash floods in the living memory on Thursday, destroying more than 250 houses and the city’s swaths disappeared in the same morning.The announcement comes after several days of the official toll standing at around 150, even the residents were sometimes missing from more than a dozen members in the same family.“We have more than 200 … corpses,” Ahmed Suleman told the Nigerian broadcaster channel Television, saying: “No one can tell you the number of casualties in Niger state because so far, we are still looking for some corpses.”“We are still looking for more,” he said. But, he said, “Speaking honestly, we cannot find out.”Considering the number of people even after about a week, the toll in Mokwa can be worse than all of the toll 2024 since one morning of floods, which saw 321 deaths from floods across the country.The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday that the death toll was 159.Climate change, human factor Climate change has made the weather swings more extreme in Nigeria, but residents in Mokwa said that human factors were also playing.The residents told the AFP that the water was being formed from the days of an abandoned railway track, which runs on the banks of the city.It usually passes through a couple in the mound and moves to a narrow channel.,Floods in Nigeria are often extended by insufficient drainage, construction of houses on waterways and dumping garbage in drains and water channels.Federal Water Management Minister Joseph YouTave said that the flood was “caused by heavy rainfall due to climate change due to heavy rainfall”, although he also warned against “irregular structures” and called local governments to maintain their drainage channels.Volunteers and disaster response teams have recovered the bodies of about 10 kilometers (six mi) away after flowing into the Niger River. Warning issued A few days before Mokwa Mokwa was killed, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency warned of possible flash floods in 15 of 36 states in Nigeria, including Niger State, between Wednesday and Friday.When AFP reporters visited the city earlier this week, a powerful smell filled the air, stating that the dumplings came from decaying the corpses trapped under the rubble.The government said that it has given assistance, but the local people have criticized what they say, there is a shortage response, many families told AFP that they had not found anything.The National Emergency Management Agency issued another statement on Tuesday, stating that it was “tireless efforts to provide immediate assistance to the affected residents”.