“I was idle looking while the water washed my family” star-news.press/wp

The life of Adam Yusuf was caught since he lost nine family members in Tiffin Maz, one of the two communities in his city the worst floods in north-central Nigeria.

Father one, 36, said that his wife and newborn, among those who washed the floods early on Thursday morning in Niger.

“She was my one who woke me up when the flood hit me, and I quickly gathered my family to keep each other. As we went outside, we saw water everywhere in our living room and compound. They were stabbing and interrupted and interrupted.”

His wife and baby just returned to the city of Mokwa a day before, after they left in their house in the laws of several weeks after she gave birth.

“I was idle looking as the water followed my family. I survived because I could swim. He was the God who saved me,” said Mr. Adam.

Local officials say that on Sunday grew into more than 200 on Sunday, I suddenly suddenly grow up from 110 on Friday. There are fears that the number can still get up.

The mood in Tiffin maza on Saturday was one of the sadness, despair and loss.

Scattered clothing, soaked mattresses and crushed metal roof leaves were some of the last remnants of what is now hundreds of destroyed houses.

Structures that continue to bear sharp influence of floods, roofs are washed or some parts of buildings destroyed.

Standing on the blue paved floor, the only thing indicating where his bedroom once was, Mr. Adam looked at the great empty space he replaced his community.

“I lost everything for this flood. But the most painful is in my family. The only valuable thing I have is this patch I’m wearing my friend.”

He said that one cousin was found and he resigned to fate that others would not return “to him.

The nineteen-year-old high school diploma, Isa Muhammad, is relentless because he heard that his beloved teacher house was washed while teachers and eight members of his family were inside.

“The two were found dead; one of them was his baby. I still miss my second child, his sister and still other relatives. The building fell on his wife who was not in the house with them, and she immediately died.”

Mr. Muhammad also lost his family, remembering his uncle who died in the disaster.

“Uncle Musa was a very good friend to my late father. Since my father died in 2023. years. He learned to appreciate his education and always told me to do the right thing.

“Whenever I am alone and thinking about him, my tears always get down my cheeks. I couldn’t sleep because the incident happened,” Mr. Muhammad said.

Water now withdrew, and the inhabitants gathered on Saturday to offer condolences to victims and also borrow a hand in search efforts.

Some inhabitants told BBC news that in some parts of the community in some parts of the community.

There was a strong bad scent around Tiffus Maze, and the inhabitants believe that there was evidence that there was dead bodies under a thick mud.

They work to find them and give them a dead decent burial as they did for others from Thursday.

“I never saw such floods before in my life, but I am grateful that my family survived,” said 65-year-old Ramat Sulaiman.

Mrs. Sulaiman’s house was completely destroyed, making his family homeless.

She said 100 children who slept in the co-sheer school two blocks from her house, “everyone was washed.”

“It was a painful scene for me. The children cried for help, but no one could do anything. As their shouts became louder, their building sank and flowed.”

Her son, Sali, left homeless and broken.

“I lost at least $ 1,500 in the floods. The sales of my farm produced last day. I was thinking of getting back to the room to get me, but the water pressure scared me,” he said.

“I also lost eleven bags and seven bean bags. My wife and I couldn’t choose anything from our room. But I’m grateful to be in the water. There were so many dead bodies in the water.”

He has nightmares since then, he said.

“I’m traumatized.”

Authorities have yet to confirm whether the dam broke, exacerbating the influence of recent floods as widely registered.

Mokwa District, Alhaji Muhammad Shaba Aliyu, is indicated that there is a “tank” in an area that can pour water “whenever there is rain”, however, has added that the flood size is exaggerated.

The inhabitants said that the BBC News believe that they believed that flooding water did not cause strong rain that experienced.

“The rain could not cause floods because there was nowhere and there was no water. I was outside and suddenly I saw that water accelerated into a high speed,” Mr. Muhammad said.

Mrs. Sulaiman said, “When I woke up for prayers, I opened the door and looked out and I didn’t see any water. Moments I started to hear the people screaming.”

“For the people who said flood as a result of rain, they lie. The rain stopped before the flood began. Nobody knows, just from God,” Mr. Adam said.

The Deputy Local Chairman Mokwa, Musa Alhaji Aliyu Kimboku, also rejected that rain.

The National Emergency Management Agency states that they are injured receive treatment, while displaced victims were taken in the relocation of camps and relief materials distributed.

The meteorological agency in the country projected that the rainy season will last up to 200 days in central Nigeria, while it could be retained for a longer period in the majority southern countries.

At the beginning of May, the Federal Government launched a campaign of raising the flood awareness, in order to educate citizens about the risks of floods.

Thirty 36 countries of the West African nation are at risk of flood, and Niger is one of them.

As the victims save what I can start new life from the ruins of their homes, those who have lost their loved ones like Mr. Adam said they would never be able to cure their destiny.