Youth found dead, as flood sacks Ugwueke community in Abia

A 37-year-old man, simply identified arsenic Ejiuwa, has died successful Ugwueke, Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, during a flooding incident.

The flood besides pulled down houses, killed livestock and destroyed crops connected farms, portion immoderate houses were submerged up to their rooftops.

The victim, who was said to beryllium a trader, drowned successful the flood portion returning to the colony from the market.

A colony root who confirmed Ejiuwa’s decease said his woman is large with their expected archetypal child.

“He was declared missing aft the rainfall arsenic helium couldn’t get astatine home, a concern that made the radical to motorboat a hunt for him.

“Unfortunately, his lifeless assemblage was aboriginal discovered and brought retired of the flood,” the Ugwueke villager said.

Apart from the nonaccomplishment of beingness and property, astir 700 persons person been rendered stateless and bare by the disaster.

A victim, Mr Gideon Okorie, appealed to the Federal Government and Abia State Government to intervene successful the travails of his people.

“We are homeless, bare and exposed to imaginable illness outbreaks,” Okorie said.

Another indigene, Promise Chijioke, said, “I got a telephone from location yesterday that my father’s location has collapsed. This is excessively much.”

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