TWO children drown in Niger flood

The corpses of two children, a boy and a nine-year-old girl were discovered in a drainage after a heavy rainfall that broke out in Minna, Niger State, on Tuesday

Initially, residents of the Tunga community in the state capital had thought that the flood carried only the girl whose parents are said to hail from Edo State, until the girl’s father was contacted to identify his daughter and discovered that a young male child was also killed in the rain floods.

Punch Online learnt that the girl, who was the only daughter among three children of her parents, was sent to the Tunga market (about two kilometres from their residence) to purchase some soup ingredients.

She was accompanied by her elder brother, an 11-year-old boy.

They went with an umbrella since the rain had been falling from the early morning hours, although not heavily.

At the time they left the house, the rain had paused momentarily, but there were still signs that the rain could come down heavily.

While they were on their way, the rains came down heavily and in torrents.

Almost immediately, it flooded all the drainage and roads in Tunga, making it impossible for motorists to move.

They had to park and wait for the rains to subside and the floods to recede.

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