No fewer than 13 people have lost their lives and many others sustained injuries and houses destroyed by flood in various parts of Gombe State this year.
The executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Haruna Abdullahi disclosed this to our correspondent in an exclusive interview on phone yesterday.
He said the victims were from Bajoga, Kaltungo, Akko and Yamaltu-Deba local government areas of the state adding however that there was no camp for the displaced persons as they were reintegrated within their communities.
“A boy died in Bajoga, and there were three people that died in Kaltungo too. Three children in Akko also lost their lives and others were in Yamaltu-Deba. In all, not less than 13 people lost their lives as a result of floods in the state,” he noted.
According to him, the state received about 45, 000 displaced persons who included victims of floods and crises from within the state and others revealing that all of them were accommodated in communities within the state.
