Death (死傷者)数 from Nigerian floods 最高の,を越すs 500 - 省s

LOKOJA, Nigeria Oct 14 (Reuters) - 普及した flooding has killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, left around 90,000 homes under water and 封鎖するd food and 燃料 供給(する)s, two 政府 省s said on Friday.

The floods have 攻撃する,衝突する 27 of Nigeria's 36 明言する/公表するs and 衝撃d around 1.4 million people, the 省s for 人道的な 事件/事情/状勢s and for 災害 管理/経営 said in an online 地位,任命するing.

Nigerian 当局 said flooding 原因(となる)d by heavier than usual rains had been building since 早期に summer and 強めるd after water 解放(する)s from the Lagdo dam in 隣人ing Cameroon.

"The 規模 of the 災害 ...is colossal," Mustapha Habib Ahmed, director general of the 国家の 緊急 管理/経営 機関, 追加するd in a 声明.

On Thursday, drone (映画の)フィート数 in Lokoja - which sits in the north-central Kogi 明言する/公表する at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers and has 苦しむd weeks of flooding - showed dozens of 潜水するd homes and 商売/仕事s.

"I have never seen such a thing," 居住(者) Khalid Yahaya Othman told Reuters as he looked at his 潜水するd 燃料 戦車/タンクs and nearby waterlogged streets.

"When this water was coming, we never 想像するd that it will come and over cover the 戦車/タンク," he said

明言する/公表する oil company NNPC 非難するd the floods, which 封鎖するd a 重要な road out of Lokoja, for a 燃料 不足 in the 資本/首都, Abuja.

連邦の Road Safety 公式の/役人 Koton Karfe said the floods had 妨げるd traffic for at least two weeks.

Cameroonian 力/強力にする company Eneo said last month it would 解放(する) water from the dam in September and October after its 貯蔵所 攻撃する,衝突する 91% capacity. (報告(する)/憶測ing By Abraham Achirga in Lokoja and Libby George in Lagos; 付加 報告(する)/憶測ing by Felix Bate in Dakar; 令状ing by Libby George, editing by John Stonestreet and Andrew Heavens)

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