Nearly 200 Dead In Niger Flooding

Flooding in Niger has left 195 people dead and affected more than 322,000, an official toll showed on Saturday.

This year’s rainy season is one of the deadliest in the country’s history.

As of October 21, 59 people had drowned and 136 had died in collapsing homes, with 211 people reported injured.

Earlier this month, the Civil Protection Service said rainy-season floods had claimed 192 lives and affected more than 263,000 people in Niger.

The rains have damaged more than 30,000 homes, 83 classrooms, six health centres and 235 grain stores.

It added that the worst-affected regions are Maradi and Zinder in the centre of the country, Dosso in the southwest and Tahoua in the west.

Also, in neighboring country Nigeria, more than 600 people have died since June in the deadliest floods in a decade.

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