Forty-eight people have now been confirmed dead as a result of a heavy downpour in Jibia local government area of Katsina state. Five hundred houses were destroyed and hundreds of domestic animals lost to the flood.
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Governor Aminu Masari has paid a sympathy visit to the victims, and pledged that government would do its best to alleviate their hardship.
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He has in the meantime directed for an immediate dispatch of thirteen truckloads of relief materials to the victims.
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