A three-year-old child has been confirmed killed following an early morning downpour that wreaked havoc in Bajoga, one of the towns in Funakaye’s Local government area of Gombe State.
The rain which lasted for over five hours over the weekend- and also left the two-year-old sibling of the dead child critically injured- resulted in heavy flooding that led to the collapse of one of the walls of the room where the two children were sleeping in ‘Unguwar Fada,’ near the Emir’s Palace.
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Reports show that the remains of the deceased have since been buried according to Islamic rites, while his critically injured younger brother was rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Gombe for treatment.
Several others that sustained various degrees of injuries were receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Bajoga and other medical facilities as of press time.
Eyewitnesses said that the rainfall started at around 5:30 am and lasted until about 11 am, during which several people got injured while over 100 houses, many livestock and property worth millions of naira were also destroyed, mostly in the Shara-Mansur and Bodoriyel areas of the town.
Head of Rescue of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Muhammad Garba, said that they were still in Bajoga accessing the situation to ascertain the casualty figures and the actual number of houses, livestock and property destroyed by the flood.
Story was adapted from Daily Trust.
