Nigerian Red Cross officials say they've found 25 corpses after a massive flood washed through northeast Nigeria.
Officials
said Sunday they recovered the corpses from the Benue River in Adamawa
state. Red Cross state secretary Abubakar Ahmad said he believed the
corpses may have come from neighboring Cameroon as no one in the area
could immediately identify the dead.
Ahmad said there could be
more dead after the flooding as others are still missing. Officials
previously recovered at least 45 bodies from the flooding, which they
blamed on officials in Cameroon opening up a dam. Cameroon warned
Nigeria before relieving pressure on the overwhelmed dam.
Nigeria
is experiencing its annual rainy season. Flooding recently killed at
least 68 people in Plateau state in central Nigeria.
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