Barely a month after rainstorm wreck havoc in Kastina state About 10 communities were again affected by heavy downpour claiming about 40 lives in Jibia Local Government Area of the State.
It was also reported that hundreds of houses were also destroyed with over 250 livestock killed in the heavy rain which started around 11:00 pm on Sunday and lasted till the early hours of today.
The communities affected by the flood includes: Kwata, Dantudu, Sabuwar, Tukare, Tsohuwar Tukare and Ungwar Mai Kwari, among others.
The failure of the rain to stop on time caused the river channels in the affected villages to overflow their banks, killing many residents and sweeping away several vehicles, motorcycles and farmlands, in the process.
The disaster also sacked many residents from their homes and shops as their apartments were flooded.
The Head of Jibia Local Government Administration, Almustapha Idris, confirmed to Channels Television that 21 persons were buried on Monday.
He added that authorities from the neighbouring Niger Republic have asked them to come and recover 18 more bodies.
Meanwhile, the Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Dr. Aminu Waziri, who could not ascertain the number of deaths as of press time, said the agency’s officers were moving to the affected communities in order to ascertain the casualties and houses affected for onward transmission to government for intervention.
However, as at the time of filing this report, residents were said to be salvaging their personal effects from their homes while some were packing out of the affected areas.
The Nigeria Meteorological Agency ( NiMet) had in its forecast earlier in the year, listed Katsina as one of the states that would experience heavy downpour.
