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Over 100 people have died after floods from heavy rains and a dam collapse submerged the market town of Mokwa Niger State.
Thousands of homes have also been destroyed according to officials.
“We have so far recovered 115 bodies and more are expected to be recovered because the flood came from far distance and washed people into the River Niger. Downstream, bodies are still being recovered,” a Niger State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) spokesman, Ibrahim Audu Husseini, told AFP Friday
“So, the toll keeps rising”.
Mokwa is a key meeting and transit point for traders from the south and food growers in the north of the country.
In the town, Mohammed Tanko, 29, a civil servant, told reporters that he lost at least 15 people from the house he grew up in.
“The property [is] gone. We lost everything,” Tanko said. Agency reports