DELTA, EDO FLOODS: OVER 500 HOUSES COLLAPSE, TRADITIONAL RULER, 4 OTHERS DIE.

MORE than 500 houses have collapsed in various communities ravaged by flood in Delta State. Worst hit are Ewulu community in Aniocha South-East of Delta State, which recorded over 100 houses as river Umuomi, a tributary of the River Niger, overflowed its bank and Ase community with over 20 houses. Scores of persons, including those suffering from stroke, are trapped in the flooded Ewulu community, just as victims of the three Oko communities in Oshimili South and Utchi of Ndokwa East councils have relocated to Asaba.

The Delta State government has provided boats and buses to evacuate victims from the affected communities to various camps in the state.

At Ewulu, the situation is pathetic as women and children who were ferried to safety had to use carts and bicycles to move their salvaged household items up hill to a temporary camp at the community secondary school. The Asaba-Onitsha expressway will soon be cut off as the flood continues to rise, even as most business operators between Okwe and bridge-head have deserted the area while the expressway has been converted into a temporary residence by victims displaced from the neighbourhood.