Flood
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Four people have been killed while 1800 others were displaced as result of a heavy downpour that resulted to flooding in Kari town of Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The rainfall was said to have lasted for six hours.

Secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Alhaji Adamu Abubakar, disclosed the figures yesterday in Bauchi while answering question from newsmen.

He said: "Among the victims include a mother and her three-year-old child whose house caved in during Sunday's six-hour rains in Kari, a town that is located along a stream in Bauchi state. Another person whose house caved in with him also died instantly while we were carrying out rescue operation."

Abubakar said Kari Primary School had been converted into a camp to provide relief to about 1,800 people who had been displaced by the flood. He said about 150 mud houses and hundreds of livestock and ten cars were washed away by the floods.

He said the state Government had distributed blankets, mats, and foods to relieve the victims from their sufferings adding that the number of the displaced persons was reducing because some decided to relocate to their relatives' homes.

He disclosed that some of the victims suffered from Gastroenteritis (cholera) in the camp because one of the pit latrines they used over flooded "but we have already distributed medicine and first aid to stop the spread of the disease."

Abubakar added that the flood had also washed away about 48 houses in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi state but no life was lost in the incident.

Chairman of the Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency SEMA Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Bello confirmed that the state government was aware of the incident and had sent relief materials like food clothes and other basic necessities of the victims.

Bello who is also the Director of Information in the Bauchi State Ministry of Information said: "Presently government officials are sent to the area to ascertain the extent of the damages, we have even sent a request to the National Emergency Management Agency NEMA and very soon within the week we are expecting assistance from them."