The Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmmumum Kabir, said on Monday that 10 more corpses of victims of the recent flood in Jibia had been recovered from the rubble of a collapsed building in the town.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the flood swept through the town on July 15, killing over 44 people and destroying more than 500 houses. Kabir, who made the disclosure while receiving some dignitaries who paid him a condolence visit over the death of a former Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, at his palace, said that the decomposed bodies had been buried. Read more