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A dam was also destroyed by the flood.
Flood has rendered many people homeless and destroyed properties worth millions of Naira in five local government areas of Katsina State.
Hassan Rawayau, the Executive Director of the state’s Rehabilitation and Emergency Relief Agency (RERA), made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Katsina on Tuesday.
Mr. Rawayau said the incident followed a heavy downpour that occurred last week in the affected areas.
The flood, he said, affected Kankia, Charanchi, Mashi, Daura and Zango local government areas, where houses, household items and some farms were damaged even though no life was lost.
He said that following the incident, officials of RERA and the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, North-West zone have visited the affected areas to sympathise with the victims and assess the extent of the damage caused by the flood.
Mr. Rawayau said the assessment of the damage was aimed at providing assistance to the victims of the flood. He urged the victims to consider the flood as an act of God and prayed against future reoccurrence.
In Kankia local government area the flood also caused the collapse of Kankia Dam which washed away several farmlands.
(NAN)
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