{"id":132,"date":"2025-06-02T18:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s4q7jq2n.top\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/nigeria-flood-victims-mourn-missing-bodies-as-death-toll-stagnates\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:17:13","slug":"nigeria-flood-victims-mourn-missing-bodies-as-death-toll-stagnates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/nigeria-flood-victims-mourn-missing-bodies-as-death-toll-stagnates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria flood victims mourn missing bodies as death toll stagnates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No fewer than 15 electricity poles were destroyed, plunging the town into darkness. The sweltering weather offers no respite. <\/p>\n

Water is in short supply, and there are fears that cholera — a major risk after floods — may worsen the already dire situation in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n

Volunteers and disaster response teams have recovered bodies nearly 10 kilometres away after they were swept into the Niger River. Residents told AFP on Monday some bodies were recovered in a village in neighbouring Kwara State, on the opposite side of the powerful waterway’s banks. <\/p>\n

Still, Fatima and Habiba are holding out hope for their husband’s daily return, even if it’s with bad news.<\/p>\n

“We will be glad if he could recover their dead bodies so we can bury them,” Fatima Jibrin said.<\/p>\n

Like the two women, Fatima Muhammed is also hoping the body of her grandson will be found, dead or alive.<\/p>\n

She was preparing breakfast Thursday morning when she saw water flowing through a narrow channel in front of her house.<\/p>\n

She was unaware that water, which had been building up for days behind an abandoned railway track along the edge of the community, had just ruptured the clay walls.<\/p>\n

In less than a minute, the gentle flow turned into a powerful torrent.<\/p>\n

She escaped through the back door, she told AFP, but “my grandson was swept away while trying to follow me.”<\/p>\n

She has been living with her daughter and considers herself an inconvenience.<\/p>\n

But as of Monday, there was still no help in sight. <\/p>\n

Government aid lacking, residents say<\/p>\n

Many residents in the Muslim-majority community are angry that the government has not been more helpful, with only days left before the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.<\/p>\n

The state deputy governor visited Friday and made promises, and the government says it has delivered aid. But many residents said they have seen nothing.<\/p>\n

Amid simmering tensions, a couple of young men threatened to beat an AFP journalist, mistaking him for a government official.<\/p>\n

An attempt to distribute some relief materials ended abruptly earlier in the day after residents — skeptical the event might be a staged photo op — insisted the items be distributed openly.<\/p>\n

The wife of the governor, Fatima Mohammed Bago, made a short visit to the affected area on Monday afternoon. No emergency officials were present at the site until just minutes before her visit. They left immediately after.<\/p>\n

Fatima and Habiba Jibrin, along with Fatima Muhammed, said she never came to them, and they have not received any help from the government.<\/p>\n

“There is nothing I can do,” said 36-year-old commercial driver Mohammed Aliu, whose children, wife and home were washed away by the floods.<\/p>\n

“But I will be happy if I can see their corpses.”<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2025 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mokwa (Nigeria) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> On a hot and humid afternoon in Mokwa, Nigeria, Fatima and Habiba Jibrin sat under a mango tree, waiting for the recovery of corpses they fear may never come. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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