The Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmmumum Kabir, has said that 10 more corpses of victims of the recent flood in Jibia have been recovered from the remains of a collapsed building in the town.
DAILY POST recalls that 44 lives were lost while 20 people were declared missing in the rainstorm that ravaged Katsina State border town of jibia.
Kabir made the disclosure on Monday while receiving some dignitaries who paid him a condolence visit over the death of Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, the former Inspector General of Police at his palace.
He said, “The 10 persons were discovered when the people of the area started experiencing serious smell coming from the collapsed building.
“The residents reported the matter to the District Head of Jibia, Alhaji Mohammed Rabiu, who ordered a search of the area, and after some hours of search, the corpses were discovered and the District Head ordered for the corpses to be buried.
“The district head later reported to me in order to make the records of those who died in the flood disaster straight’’.
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