Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says it has rescued 719 victims from the flood that ravaged Maiduguri and Jere areas of the state.
The Director-General of the agency, Mohammed Barkindo, said this on Wednesday, explaining that the victims were rescued from rooftops, trees, and upstairs in various locations around the town.
Barkindo says the divers’ used improvised rescue facilities, such as ropes, tubes, and other materials, to carry out the operation.
The United Nations Human Rights Refugee Council and Maiduguri Metropolitan Council residents says this is the town’s worst flooding in 30 years as about 414,000 people have been displaced and another 30 others killed in the flood.
