Pregnant woman, 7 children Die In Flood

Eight persons, including a pregnant woman, and seven children, have drowned in the ravaging flood at Utchi in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State of Nigeria.
Chairman of Ndokwa East Local Government council, Mrs. Nkechi Chukwura, disclosed this yesterday in an interaction with newsmen, shortly after a stakeholders meeting on Improving Synergy on Management of the 2015 Predicted Flood at Asaba, the State capital.
She said the deceased were on their way to the community when the storm met and threw them into
the water.
‘’The pregnant woman and the children are nowhere to be found but they later found a little child along the river bank of one of the communities. The seven children were not all her children, I think they were coming from the school, so they all died,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, the state government has solicited the support of traditional rulers and community leaders in the management of the flood which, it said, was already ravaging about 15 of the 25 local government areas in the state.