Three siblings and four adults have died from a two-day continuous rainfall in Lagos State.
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
Zonal Coordinator for South West, Ibrahim Farinloye. disclosed this in a
statement on Wednesday.
Giving a post-emergency phase assessment after
the unprecedented rainfall of Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9, Farinloye
said eight lives were saved within the period.
“Saturday, 9th July 2022 have revealed that
about that seven people – three children of the same parent and four adults –
died as a result of the flooding that was witnessed during the two days
continuous rainfall,” he said.
“About eight lives were also saved during the
period, as a result of the flooding that was witnessed during the two-day
continuous rainfall.”
According to him, the three siblings who lost
their lives were residing at a church building belonging to Mercy of Christ
Apostolic Church, situated in an uncompleted building.
The victims – Michael, 18; Elizabeth, 17 and
Timi, 14 – were swept away while trying to relocate from their room to the main
church structure.
It was gathered that the youngest child, Timi,
who was said to be asthmatic, while trying to climb the plank linking their
room to the church building, slipped and was overpowered by the flood.
The NEMA official explained that while the
remaining two trying tried rescuing their sibling, they were also swept away by
the flood.
Farinloye said that the NEMA team, while on a
condolence visit to the families, met with representatives of Progressive
Community Development Area, who conducted the agency around the affected
communities.
He added, “The bereaved parents were said to be
somewhere, but the NEMA team had a brief meeting with the community leaders on
the way forward.
“An appeal was made to them that for the rest
of the year, the community must embark on awareness and sensitisation on safe
actions, to avoid the situation that they experienced during the period.
“The community leaders also informed NEMA that
in the same community, four siblings were also swept away on the same day, but
that the community members rallied round and rescued all of them.”
He listed the flooded communities as Oke
Isagun, Agbado Oke, Oko LCDA, all in Alimosho LGA.
-Channelstv
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