still missing in a renewed flood rage in nearly all the villages of
the southern zone of Plateau State at the weekend.
More corpses are still been picked in villages around the affected areas.
Also about a hundred communities and over a thousand houses are said
to have been affected by the flooding.
Also, hundreds of houses and bridges linking the area with Lafia,
capital of Nasarawa State and Taraba state were summarily sweep away
by the flood waters.
A residence of Langtang, an affected area, Mr Nandom said "iced blocks
were literarily falling on their roofs all through early hours of
Sunday," before their homes and farmlands were washed away.
The transition committee chairman of Shendam Local Government, an
affected area, Kemi Nshe told Newsmen that two hundred hectares of
farm land was also washed away by the flooding in his local government
council alone.
The chairman, who described the incidence as sad, however, called on
the people of the state to be calm and wait for relief that will come
their way soonest. culled from allafrica news.