Update on Jos flood disaster-38 killed ,55 still missing

A woman and her five children were among no fewer than 38 persons killed after heavy rainfall in Jos North forced a dam to overflow, flooding  Rikkos and Gangere areas of  the Plataeu State  on Sunday evening.
No fewer than 100 persons  were displaced, with at least 50  declared missing and over  50 houses swept away.
The rain, which started at about 4.30pm,  lasted for more than eight hours before it subsided.
Meteorologists had predicted heavy rainfall in Jos in July. Figures obtained from the Meteorological Department had predicted that Jos would experience heavy flooding with forecast  for Sunday put at +18 degree centigrade to +22 degrees centigrade.
A former Councillor representing Rikkos/Gangere ward, Mr. Abdullahi Gangere, told our correspondent in an interview that more than 30 people were swept away by the heavy flooding that accompanied the torrential rainfall.
“I went there to assess the extent of damage and it was much. We are still searching for a lot of people mostly children who were swept away by the flood,” he said.
A resident of the area, Abubakar Mahmud, said  many of  the residents were sleeping  when the floods came.
He said, “Because it was dark nobody could see anything. The floods just carried the houses and people living in them along and none of the victims could receive any help.”