3,000 Displaced, Death Toll Hits 47 In Jos

Nine more bodies were recovered on Tuesday, taking the death toll from Sunday evening’s floods in  Rikkos, Gangere and Angwan Rogo areas of Jos North  to 47,  as  the number of displaced persons hit 3,000.
The development came as  Abdlahamadu Maikusa, who escaped death by a whisker, lost 10 members of his extended family to  the flood.

Acting Zonal Coordinator for North Central of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Mohammed Abdulsalam, told our correspondent in an interview in Jos  that the nine bodies were pulled out of the rubble of caved in buildings on Monday evening.

Abdulsalam said more casualities  would have been recorded if some residents had not relocated to the homes of friends  in other parts  of the local government. He also said  over 200 houses were destroyed.

Culled from PUNCH