Deadly flooding in West and Central Africa leaves corpses of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies
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Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city's main prison as its walls were washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam. Corpses of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies on what used to be main streets.
As torrential rains across Central and West Africa have unleashed the most catastrophic floods in decades, residents of Maiduguri, the capital of the fragile Nigerian state of Borno — which has been at the center of an Islamic extremists' insurgency — said they have seen it all.
Earlier this week, Nigerian authorities said more than 270 inmates were missing after escaping from custody when severe flooding damaged a prison in Maiduguri, CBS News partner BBC reported. Borno state Governor Babagana Zulum described the extent of the damage in the area as "beyond human imagination."
