No fewer than 73 have been killed in flood incidents that ravaged Adamawa and Kano states recently.
50 of the fatalities were recorded in Adamawa State while 23 casualties were recorded in Kano State.
The Adamawa flood incidents which affected 11 communities also left 71 people injured.
The Executive Secretary of Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency, ADSEMA, Malam Suleiman Mohammed, and his Kano State Emergency Management Agency, KSEMA, counterpart, Dr Saleh Jili, made the disclosure in Yola and Kano respectively, yesterday.
The Executive Secretary of ADSEMA, Malam Suleiman Mohammed blamed the flooding on the release of water from Lagdo Dam in neighbouring Cameroon.
Mohammed said also that the flood destroyed 172,000 farmlands and food crops worth millions of naira.
He added that the agency had provided clothes, foodstuffs, drugs, mosquito nets, blankets and buckets for victims to assuage their suffering.
