Floods in northeastern Nigeria affect one million people
Al Jazeera
Collapse of major dam in Borno has caused the state’s worst flooding in decades, forcing residents to flee their homes.
Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 30 people and affected more than one million others, the authorities have said.
The collapse of the Alau dam on the Ngadda river in Borno State on Tuesday caused some of the state’s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ago, and prompted residents to flee their homes.
The state government said on Wednesday that the dam was at capacity due to unusually high rains. Officials expected the death toll to rise.
The current flooding comes nearly two years after Nigeria’s worst flooding in a decade killed more than 600 people across the country.
Ezekiel Manzo, spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, on Wednesday put the death toll at 30.
