Sixteen persons were confirmed dead in Gangare and other communities
in the Jos NorthLocal Government Area of Plateau when River Rikkos
over flew its banks after a heavy downpour on Sunday night.
"So far, we have recovered 16 corpses but many others are still
missing," the Publicity Secretary of Jama'atul-Nasril- Islam, Alhaji
FarukUmar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Monday.
"Already, we have just buried 14 corpses while two bodies have just
been discovered. But we are also still searching for more bodies
because many people are still missing.
"More than 200 houses were washed away following the flooding of
Rikkos River," he said, listing the worst-hit areas as Gangare and
Ungwan-Rogo.
Umar blamed what he described as the colossaldamage on the practice of
building houses on waterways and blocking of drainage, calling for a
massive drainage evacuation to allow free flow of water.
A NAN correspondent, who went to the burial ground, counted 14 bodies
and saw two more bodies being conveyed to the burial ground.
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