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  • Middle aged man buried alive in Jigawa

    Middle aged man buried alive in Jigawa

    A middle-aged man identified as Umar Sale was on Tuesday buried alive by a landslide in the Taura local government area of Jigawa State.

    The spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the state, Adamu Shehu, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Wednesday in Dutse, said it occurred while the deceased was evacuating sand in a burrow pit at Majiya town.

    Shehu said the victim, a father of three, was digging the sand from the pit to refurbish his mud house which had earlier been destroyed by a heavy downpour when the sand above the pit slid and buried him alive.

    He said: “The victim’s first cry for help was heard by some people farming around the area who rushed to his rescue.

    “Unfortunately, he died on the spot because of the weight of the sand and his inability to breathe. His body was recovered and thereafter released to his family for proper burial.

    “Investigation revealed that similar cases were recorded in the past and residents of the community were therefore advised to refrain from extracting or digging sand from the ditch.”

  • Residents panic as landslide hits Anambra community

    Residents panic as landslide hits Anambra community

    There was pandemonium at Nanka community in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State as a minor landslide on Saturday reportedly hit the community.

    Speaking with newsmen, an environmentalist and native of the area, Mr Ikenna Ezenekwe, said the development caused panic, forcing residents to flee the place.

    He said,”There was panic in Ubaha village of Nanka community when residents fled over a minor landslide.

    “Residents vacated the community over the fear of a possible major follow up due to the landslide which occurred after a downpour at night which caused a portion of the land to cave in.”

    However, no life was lost in the incident.

    While calling for an urgent intervention by the relevant authority, Ezekwe said, “The rainy season of 2018 has reopened old wounds.

    He said,”The people of Nanka who had suffered untold hardship in the hands of landslides are once again faced with another threat.

    Ezenekwe who is the Nigeria coordinator of a New York-based nongovernmental organization, the Rural Communities Development Initiative, added,”Nanka presently dangles on the verge of another catastrophic landslide should immediate prophylactic measures are not taken by the government.

    “Two minor landslides occurred in the village of Ubahu Nanka dividing the village into two halves.

    “The land belonging to the families of Ezeagwuogbo was abandoned by the family resulting from the landslide. Other families in Ubahu were also affected.

    He said, “Our governor needs to come closer to Nanka and see the problems firsthand. Nanka people are leaving on the edge.

    He said the community was sitting on what he called a ticking time bomb, stressing that “The fault lines which are precursors to major landslides are already visible within the community. The big one can happen anytime from now. The government should be ready.”

  • Landslide kills woman, seven children

    Landslide kills woman, seven children

    A landslide killed a woman and at least seven children in Nepal over the weekend as officials issued warnings on Monday of the risk of more landslides and flash floods due to torrential rain.

    Working in the downpour, rescuers in Bheri town, about 310 kilometers (193 miles) west of capital Kathmandu, were still searching for a missing boy, having pulled out one survivor.

    “Army and police personnel are digging with shovels through mud for a 12-year-old boy, who is missing,” Krishna Khatiwada, a senior government official in Bheri, said.

    The dead children were aged between three and eleven years.

    Flash floods and landslides in the June-September monsoon season are common in mostly mountainous

    Nepal is home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest.

    Samir Shrestha, an official at the weather forecasting office in Kathmandu, said more landslides and flash floods were likely as heavy rains were forecast for hilly areas in central and western Nepal through on Tuesday.

    Residents in Terai, the southern low lying region bordering India, had been warned to beware of floods as water levels were rising in many rivers, he said.

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  • Death toll rises to 90 as landslides, floods engulf Nepal

    Death toll rises to 90 as landslides, floods engulf Nepal

    Five people were killed in Nepal on Wednesday by landslides and flooding brought on by monsoon rains, bringing the death toll to 90 across the country.

    “A woman and her two children, one of them an infant, were killed when a landslide struck their home in a village in north-central Nepal’s Gorkha district,’’ local Police Officer, Mahendra Nepal, said.

    Parbat Police Officer, Rabindra Kumar Shrestha, said in the district of Parbat, a teenage boy was buried alive and a man was swept away by a flooded river after a landslide engulfed seven houses.

    According to Nepal’s Home Ministry, over 55 people have been injured and 18 have gone missing in the monsoon-induced disasters in last one month.

     

  • Landslide kills 2, injures 3 in Jigawa

    The Police in Jigawa on Monday said two persons, Mati Bako, 17, and Tanimu Kwalle, 25, had been killed by landslide.

    The Police Spokesman in the state, SP Abdu Jinjiri, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Dutse.

    Jinjiri said three others, Sani Haruna, 31, Aliyu Yusif, 30, and Nazifi Yusuf were injured, adding that the incident occurred in Babura Local Government Area of the state.

    He said the incident occurred in Barima village at about 1:40 p.m. while the victims were digging sand in a burrow pit.

    “Today at about 2:20 p.m., the Police in Babura local government area received an information that at about 1:40 p.m., a burrow fit fell on the following people; Mati Alhaji Bako aged 17, Tanimu Kwalle aged 25, Sani Haruna aged 31, Aliyu Yusuf aged 30 and Nazifi Yusuf aged 20 all of Barima village in Babura, while digging sand.

    “As a result, Mati Bako and Tanimu Kwalle died on the spot while the other three sustained various degrees of injury,” he said.

    The police spokesman said that victims were taken to hospital by the policemen where the duo were confirmed dead by a medical doctor.

    He said that the corpses of the deceased were released to their families for burial, while the injured ones were receiving treatment in the hospital.

    “No foul play was suspected in the incident,” he said.

  • 2019: I’m confident Buhari will win by landslide – Yahaya Bello

    Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has once again reiterated his support for President Muhammadu Buhari while insisting that the president will win by landslide in the 2019 presidential elections.

    Bello told State House correspondents after observing the Friday Ju’mat prayer at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that Buhari would be reelected regardless of the order of the 2019 elections.

    Commenting on the proposal by the National Assembly that the elections into the Senate and House of Representatives should kick-start the polls, the governor said: “If you observed critically what happened in the last election, where Mr. President was elected along with other members of the National Assembly, then we called it Buhari Tsunami, where the good, the bad and the ugly were all put together and elected.

    “It’s either going to be in their interest that the Buhari Tsunami will return them or everybody will be on his or her own. Let Buhari return and let Nigerians select the good ones out of the bad ones to return to the National Assembly.

    “Whichever order is adopted for the coming general elections, I can assure you that Mr. President will win with a landslide and the good ones will return to the National Assembly.”

    Bello urged Nigerians to give Buhari a chance to complete what he has started adding that he supports the Bola Tinubu-led committee set up during the week, by Buhari, to reconcile all aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    “Whatever Mr. President believes in, his judgment and his wisdom, I believe in him. And I believe in his ability to bring all party members together,” he said.

    Responding to the statement made by Catholic Bishops during their visit to the President on Thursday that many Nigerians are not happy with the government, the governor said: “It’s very true that Nigerians are angry but the question is: who are this category of Nigerians that are angry?

    “The Nigerians that are angry are those who used private jets to cart away Nigeria’s money in dollars out of the country to South Africa. I’m sure you are aware that our money is still locked down there. Such money if you bring it into the economy, a lot of youths that are unemployed will surely be employed.

    “And of course those that have looted the country dry and normally go to church and mosque to pay tithe are no longing doing so. Of course these are the people that are angry.”

    “I think those that are benefiting from these crimes and criminality will be angry and they are Nigerians. So it is important to define the category of people who are angry.

     

  • BREAKING: 15 dead, scores missing as landslide buries Chinese village

    Fifteen people were killed in a landslide in south-west China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday and about 100 were believed to be still buried in the debris and feared dead, state media said.

    The landslide swept over more than 60 homes as dawn broke in Xinmo, a remote village in northern Sichuan province.

    Rubble slid 800 meters (half a mile) down a steep slope to block a 2 km stretch of river and 1.6 km of road, official state news agency Xinhua said.

    More than 1,000 workers were involved in the rescue effort, including more than a hundred medical staff.

    Xinhua, quoting rescue headquarters, said 15 bodies had been retrieved from the debris by Saturday night.

    More than 120 people were believed to have been buried, it said. Geological experts at the site said the chances of them surviving were slim, Xinhua said.

    State broadcaster CCTV reported that by midday only three people had been pulled from the rubble — a couple and their two-month-old baby. Another child of the family remained buried.

    Photos from the official People’s Daily showed rescue efforts continuing after nightfall using torches, and it said rescuers were trying to reach two people they believe they had heard trapped beneath the rubble.

    State television reports showed villagers and rescuers scrambling over mounds of mud and rocks that had slid down the mountainside.

    Television images showed water thick with mud flowing over the site, submerging a car pushed off the road, while police and residents pulled on ropes to try to dislodge large boulders.

    Police have closed roads in the county to all traffic except emergency services, the news agency said.

    There is an extensive network of dams in the area, which is close to the region of Tibet, including two hydropower plants in Diexi town near the buried village.

    Heavy rain triggered the landslide, the provincial department of land and resources said, according to Xinhua.

    The area is prone to earthquakes, including one in 1933 that resulted in parts of Diexi town becoming submerged by a nearby lake, and an 8.0 magnitude tremor in central Sichuan’s Wenchuan County in 2008 that killed nearly 70,000 people.