At least one person has been reported dead while four persons got injured as flood swept through Trademore Estate in Lugbe area of Abuja on Friday.
An eyewitness, Williams Joe, who spoke to LEADERSHIP after the incident, said the flood swept away a driver of a Peugeot car, who has been adjudged to have died while four other victims were rescued.
Collaborating the story, Ezekiel Manzo of the National Emergency Management Agency , said the Agency’s staff have been deployed to assist in curtailing the situation. He said there was ongoing search and rescue activity at Imo Street, Trademore Estate in Lugbe where a Peugeot 406 driver with a registration No. YLA 681 FS got drowned in the flood and still missing at press time.
He, however, said four persons were rescued and in stable condition while the search for the driver and possible occupants of the 406 continued
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