A 120-year-old woman,
Mrs Rhoda Tamunu, on Wednesday, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, escaped death as she was
rescued from being overrun by rampaging flood, which enters the second week in
the state.
Also, no fewer than 1,000
indigenes from various communities were evacuated to relief camps located in
the state capital.
The aged woman, according to
official of the State Emergency Medical Services, was rescued at the point of
death, adding that her residence at Agudama-Epie, in Yena-goa Local Government
Area of the state, had been submerged, while property worth millions of naira
was lost to the flooding.
The official, Mrs Cynthia
Boufini, said the agency responded to a distress call put through one of the
hotlines made available by the state government.
Expressing gratitude to the
state government over its efforts to ameliorate the suffering of the people,
her grandson, Mr Francis Monovie, said if not for the hotlines, his grandmother
would have been washed away by the flood.
The victim had since been
taken to the Government House clinic for medical attention.
by
Journalist :-Oluwole Ige
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