More than 600 killed in Nigeria’s worst flooding in a decade.

The death toll from Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade has crossed 600, the country’s humanitarian agency tweeted on Sunday.

According to the ministry, more than 2 million people have been affected by the floods that spread in some parts of the southern part of the city after the rainy season. More than 200,000 houses were completely destroyed or damaged, the ministry added.

Earlier this month, Nigeria’s National Disaster Management Agency warned of high risk of flooding in the states along the Niger and Benue rivers, saying that three floods were expected. in the pool that Nigerians are full of will be filled. NEMA said the overflow of water from neighboring Cameroon contributed to the flooding
Although many parts of Nigeria are prone to floods every year, the floods in some areas are worse than the last major flood in 2012, the Red Cross worker in Kogi, Nigeria’s Minister of Human Welfare, Sadiya Umar Farouq,  warned Sunday that more flooding was likely and urged regional governments to prepare accordingly.

“We are calling on the state government, local government councils and various communities to prepare for another flood by evacuating people living in flood waters and moving to higher ground, providing shelters and aid, clean water and medical aid for water may develop. -diseases caused by flooding,” the Ministry of Human Welfare said on Twitter on Sunday. federal states” and “many state governments are not prepared for floods.