Kano - The numbers reported missing or dead after flash floods swept through northern Nigeria leapt yesterday to more than 116, after floods ripped through Jigawa state.
Some 102 people are missing, feared dead, in Jigawa State, northeast Nigeria, after water released late on Thursday by an overflowing dam swept through towns and villages, local community leader Mr Sagir Mohammed told reporters here.
Local leaders had conducted a search and found 102 men, women and children missing, the community leader said.