Excessive water ranges brought on by heavy flooding are hampering efforts to rescue folks lacking after a ship accident in southeast Nigeria, emergency companies stated on Sunday.
Many individuals had been both lacking or presumed useless whereas 15 others had been rescued after an overloaded passenger boat capsized on the Niger river on Friday.
Heavy flooding in Nigeria
It befell close to Umunnankwo in Anambra state. Twenty-nine of Nigeria’s 36 states have been struck by heavy flooding.
“The water degree could be very excessive and too dangerous for a easy search and rescue operation,” Thickman Tanimu, the southeast coordinator of the Nationwide Emergency Administration Company (NEMA) stated.
He stated the water degree was greater than one-tenth greater than in the course of the severe flooding seen 10 years in the past within the huge West African nation of greater than 200 million folks.
He stated NEMA had contacted the Nigerian Air Pressure to supply helicopters for the rescue operation.
Many presumed useless
Chukwudi Onyejekwe of Anambra State Emergency Administration Company stated:
“We’ve got not discovered any extra survivors aside from the 15, whereas many others are both lacking or presumed useless,” he stated.
Native media stated 85 folks had been aboard the boat heading to the Nkwo market in Ogbakuba earlier than it capsized.
“This improvement remains to be a shock to the federal government and good folks of Anambra State. I sympathise with the households of individuals concerned”, Anambra state governor Charles Soludo stated in a press release late Saturday.
The governor urged residents of flood-ravaged areas to relocate, whereas including that the federal government would supply reduction to these affected by the catastrophe.
Boat accidents in Nigeria
Boat accidents happen commonly in Nigeria due to overloading, rushing, poor upkeep and disrespect of navigation guidelines.
pic.twitter.com/Jm4GBNyyz1— Uteno Achor David (@achordavz) October 8, 2022
For the reason that begin of the wet season, many areas of Nigeria have been devastated by floods.
Greater than 300 folks have been killed and not less than 100,000 made homeless within the nation’s worst flooding in a decade, based on the emergency companies.
Farmland and crops have additionally been washed away by floods, sparking fears of meals shortages, famine and starvation in a rustic already scuffling with the affect of the Covid-19 pandemic and the warfare in Ukraine.
Broad areas of the state of Kogi are underwater after the Niger and Benue rivers broke their banks. Floods in Lokoja, state capital of Kogi, Nigeria, late September 2022. Lokoja sits on the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers.#FloodVictims#ClimateActionNow pic.twitter.com/Lz0ndGGSNQ— Uteno Achor David (@achordavz) October 8, 2022
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