By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

Two children, aged 4 and 7-year-old, were over the weekend killed by flash flood which followed heavy rain in different locations in Nkwele Awka, Awka South Local Government of Anambra State.

Information has it that one of the kids was swept away by the flood while disposing refuse on the flood channel while the other was flushed by the flood while trying to take his slippers that were being carried away.

According to a source, “The mother had sent the girl on an errand to go and dispose their waste when she was caught up by the flood.

“She was pouring the waste inside the drainage when her leg suddenly slipped and she fell inside the drainage and was carried away by the heavy flood.”

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Tochukwu Ikenga, said the incident were yet to be reported at the command.

While describing the case as pure environmental disaster, he said that the command would continue to collaborate with government to improve safety in the state.

His words: “This is pure environmental disaster but we keep working with government to make sure safety is improved.”

It would be recalled that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) had recently alerted the nation about looming flood disaster in 19 states which included Anambra.

It called on the affected states to make adequate preparations should be made in good time to avert the level of devastation that occurred during the last year’s flood disaster across the country.

NEMA also advised communities residing in the coastal regions to embark on early evacuation from those areas before the flood would come.

Anambra State last year witnessed heavy flood devastation that affected over fifty communities, destroyed buildings and farmlands as well as causing cholera outbreak.

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