No fewer than 100 houses and 146 farms?have been?destroyed by flood in Kofa and Tofani villages in Kusada Local Government Area of?Katsina State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.?
?NAN?also gathered that eight persons sustained injuries during the flood?which?occurred on Friday in the two villages.
The injured persons were said to be?receiving treatment at various hospitals?including?Katsina General Hospital and Kankia Hospital, with?three treated and discharged.
?The flood?was?said to have destroyed 85 houses and 95 farms in Kofa village and?15 houses and 51 farms?in Tofani village .
?The victims were said to be squatting with their neighbours in the affected villages.
When contacted, Alhaji Mansur Murnai, the Caretaker Chairman of the local government, confirmed the incident, describing it ?as a “calamity”.
“Shortly after the flood, we?visited the affected villages to sympathise with the victims.
“The local council has set up a 12-man committee to assess the magnitude of the disaster,” Murnai told NAN on Sunday in Kusada, Katsina State.
Murnai said that the local government would soon?donate relief materials to the victims and advised?the victims to consider the flood?as “an act of God''.
NAN recalls that in a separate incident,?flood destroyed?1,400 houses, killed 150 animals and rendered many families homeless?in Mai’adua Local Government Area of the state. (NAN)