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No fewer than six persons have been reportedly killed in Oko Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State following a rainstorm that wreaked havoc on Wednesday evening.
The rainstorm also destroyed buildings in Okwe, Issele-Azagba among others.
The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who confirmed the situation on Thursday in Asaba, said five others who sustained various degrees of injuries were being treated at the hospital.
He said, “Six persons lost their lives to rainstorm and windstorm recorded in Oko Community area.
“A building structure collapsed which led to the death of six persons, one other person is critically injured and is being attended to at the Asaba Specialist Hospital, while five others sustained various injuries are already in stable condition.
“It is something that is quite disturbing and unfortunate. It is our prayer that God will grant the deceased eternal rest even as we pray to God to comfort the bereaved families and grant them the fortitude to bear their loss.”
In a related development, Aniagwu said a 10-year-old boy was swept away by a flood at the Okotomi area of Okpanam Community in Oshimili North Local Government Area.
He said the State Government was coordinating rescue efforts to recover the body.
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Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO.
We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited.
We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
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