Nigeria’s Niger State flooding this week has claimed the lives of 151 people and has forced several thousand from their homes, an emergency official said on Saturday.
According to the director of information at the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Audu Hussaini, the death toll has risen from 177 reported on Friday to 151 on Saturday.
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He added that over 500 households had been impacted and more than 3,000 people displaced.
The flooding in Niger State’s central town of Mokwa began on Wednesday night and continued till Thursday morning. Days later, rescuers were still combing through the mud and wreckage in search of corpses.
Nigeria is prone to floods during the rainy season, which begins in April.
In 2022, the country’s biggest floods in almost a decade killed over 600 people, evacuated around 1.4 million, and damaged 440,000 hectares (1.09 million acres) of crops.
