National Telescope national telescope newspaper
No fewer than seven lives was lost and several people injured after rainstorm ravaged some parts of Delta State on Wednesday.
Explaining the extent of the tragedy during a press confess in Asaba on Thursday, the Commissioner for Information in the State, Charles Aniagwu, said the victims included a 10-year-old boy.
According to him, the death occurred in the Oko axis of Oshimili and Okpanam, Oshimili South North council areas.
He said, “The storm that greeted the downpour on Wednesday, in the Oko axis, we lost six persons as the rainstorm fell a building and some trees and the collapsed structure led to the death of six persons,” stated the commissioner. “One other is critically injured, and his is being attended to at the Asaba Specialist Hospital, while five others are in stable condition but sustain some level of injury.”
He added, “There is also another one that is so pathetic. In Okotomi Community in Okpanam, the state government is intervening with flood control measures to save the community from flooding and to open up the area. But on account of the rainstorm flood on Wednesday, a 10-year-old lad, who was returning from church in the evening, slipped and fell into the drain that was being constructed.”
The commissioner explained that the flood swept the boy because of the large volume of water at the construction site.
“This is quite disturbing, and we pray that God will grant their families the strength to bear that loss. Even as we ask God to comfort us as a state,” said Mr Aniagwu.
