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    At least 4 die, 1,800 displaced in Nigeria floods

    AP – Mon, Aug 22, 2011

    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian emergency authorities say at least four people have died in floods in a northeast Nigerian town.

    A regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency said Monday that the victims include a mother and her three-year-old child whose house caved in during Sunday's six-hour rains in Kari, a town that sits along a stream in Bauchi state.

    Aliyu Sambo said Kari Primary School had been converted into a camp to provide relief to about 1,800 people who had been displaced by the floods. He said about 150 mud houses and hundreds of livestock were washed away.

    The agency has warned that rains will be heavier this year than last year. Last year's rains displaced about 500,000 people nationwide.

    The rainy season lasts roughly from June to September.

     

    15 comments

    • chuks
      chuks  •  9 mths ago
      I am a christain igbo residing in norway.the region effected is infested with muslim terrorists who does`nt give a darn abt human life. Floods ought to be a normal occurance there. I wish them what they wish for others. #$%$$ing #$%$ boko haram.
    • Ugochukwu Akwarandu
      Ugochukwu Akwarandu  •  9 mths ago
      what we leader do on earth history must judge
    • Barney
      Barney  •  9 mths ago
      Aliyu Sambo ? That last name is a joke....right???
    • Barney
      Barney  •  9 mths ago
      A Whiter Shade of Pale.
      Oops!

      You said boko haram.

      My bad!!!
    • Ugochukwu Akwarandu
      Ugochukwu Akwarandu  •  9 mths ago
      lean to care for other brother & sister that are in problems its a global & small world
    • chris
      chris  •  9 mths ago
      They should try to divert the flood water to somalia so i don't have to see pictures of starving somalian babies anymore!
    • Ilori Ade
      Ilori Ade  •  9 mths ago
      GADDAFI GO TO SLEEP,HURRAY
    • Robert Onit
      Robert Onit  •  9 mths ago
      Mud huts. Yup, they're equals.
    • drill4you
      drill4you  •  9 mths ago
      plant a tree... prevent a flood.... or is that... prevent a flood... plant a tree.....
    • Sgt Black
      Sgt Black  •  9 mths ago
      Oh well, we're talking of the very same region filled with those incest fools called boko haram, right. Hope the flood wipe that region out the map...it's killing the countries' image.
    • Barney
      Barney  •  9 mths ago
      'mud houses ? I'll huff and I'll puff... Where's Jimmy Carter ? Go build some houses for them.
    • PhuQue
      PhuQue  •  9 mths ago
      droughts..floods...rapes...killings.....starvation....disease......evolution better kick it into overdrive................
    • Bad Bob
      Bad Bob  •  9 mths ago
      This happens in the U.S. every year and nobody comes to our aide. We don't need to be sending any more money out of our country to animal countries.
    • Hank Zmith
      Hank Zmith  •  9 mths ago
      I wish the number of dead was a lot higher than just 4.
      Oh well.
      You can't please everyone.
      • Jacob
        Jacob 9 mths ago
        You're disgusting, That's the kind of mentality that terrorism is made of.
    • Jerry Pelletier
      Jerry Pelletier  •  9 mths ago
      Why is this our news...don't we have our own problems?
      • Koen
        Koen 9 mths ago
        Well, I guess for the same reason that Kardashian bimbo's wedding & 9/11 etc...are also being crammed down our throats.....
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