Monday August 12, 2024 started like any other day for a 30-year old man and his two-year-old son in Madabe village , Buji Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
After surviving a 96-hour flood that ravaged their community, they had no inkling of the disastrous death that awaited them. They were killed in a sudden building collapse on Monday.
Boy’s mother survives
Buji LGA Information Officer, Alhaji Ali Safiyanu, who confirmed the information to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse , said the 25-year-old mother of the boy survived the incident.
Safiyanu said that the surviving mother is responding to treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
He explained that the incident which led to the collapse of the building occurred on Sunday night during a heavy downpour.
Badaruddeen Tijjani, the spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in the state, confirmed the incident but could not immediately give the names of the deceased and the survivor.
Tijjani said investigation had since commenced into the incident.
Devastating flood
flood wreaked havoc between Thursday and Sunday in some villages in the area, displacing about 400 households and destroying about 1,000 farms.
The Jigawa State Management Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) had already distributed relief items to the displaced persons camped in one of the schools in the area.
