Floods submerge the city in Nigeria, killing at least 88 people:

At least 88 people have been confirmed dead after floods immersed Mokwa, a market city in the state of Nigeria in Niger, on Thursday, said an official.

Husseini Isah, head of the Office of Operations in Minna, capital of the state of Niger, said that many more are still at risk, with the rescue efforts on Friday. Previous reports said at least 20 died.

“The number continues to increase,” Isah told The News. “But in the last count, 88 bodies have been recovered.”

The floods were activated by torrential rains that lasted several hours. According to local reports that cite residents and officials of the local government, a collapse of dams in a nearby city worsened the situation.

Mokwa is an important meeting point for southern merchants and food producers in the north of the country.

In a similar occurrence Last Septemberthe torrential rains and a collapse of a dam in the northeast of Maiduguri of the Northeast of Nigeria caused severe floods, leaving at least 30 people dead and displacing millions, worsening the humanitarian crisis caused by the insurgency of Boko Haram.

Nigeria often faces seasonal floods, particularly affecting communities along the banks of the Niger and Benue rivers.

In 2022, more than 600 people He died and more than 82,000 houses were destroyed by floods in Nigeria.

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