Logpobiri Anaiya
At least 12 persons have been killed, while hecters of farms land were washed away by flood in Ganjuwa and Giade local government areas of Bauchi State.
The Deputy Director Needs Assessment of the State Emergency Management Agency SEMA, Musa Ladan who disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen in Bauchi, He explained that flood killed four persons in Galamakira and Galam Baba communities in Miya district area of Ganjuwa local government while eight persons also lost their lives as a result of flood in Gulbuk community in Giade local government area of the state.
” The flood killed four children who went out in the rain to wash their bodies. Unfortunately for them on thier way home, they stepped on a culvert which caved in and the flood took them away” Musa said
Mr Ladan said “The people in the community were able to recover the body one of the children who died during the incident.The other two bodies were recovered the following day”
He said that the fourth victim who lost his life in the flood was a 65 year old farmer called Alhaji Danladi whose house collapsed due to the magnitude of the wind that accompanied the flood.
In same vain the Permanent Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency SEMA, Aliyu Abba Ahamad, said that SEMA team in the state have visited the affected communities to commiserate with the affected victims and access the level of damage wrecked by the flood.
Meanwhile the Village heads of Galamakira and Galam Baba, Saleh Adamu and Ahmed Iliyasu, called on the state government to construct more primary health care centres in the communities in order to offer prompt medical services to the people during cases of emergencies.
