Heavy Downpour Disconnects Tudun Amba/Lafia, As One Drowned, One Rescued

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Rabiu Omaku

A Heavy down that lasted for about four hours Thursday morning has excise commuters plying Doma-Lafia Federal highway were stranded at Tudun Amba bridge which over flooded it bank, drowning one while one was rescued by rescue team.

 

Hundreds of commuters and civil servants from Doma Local Government Area, a 24 kilometers away from the State Capital are those mostly affected by overflow.

 

As at press time a female victim that lost her life while crossing the overflowing Amba River ignore the outcry not for her to cross over but was consumed by the wave of the fast moving flood while one

 

Scores of houses were been abandoned, the strong wave of the overflow compelled stranded passengers and civil servants to follow 911 trucks to cross over.

 

The over flooding lasted for about 4 hours, in the same vain, no fewer than 5 houses were destroyed by heavy flood  along Masallaci street at Workers Village.

 

The State Governor, Engr Abdullahi Alhaji.Sule has sympathies with those that lost their loves ones in the flood, and called on people within the river bank to find a better place as their abode.

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