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The
residents of a local community in Kano State are crying out as massive
flood which is caused by torrential rainfall in the area have started
exhuming corpses from the cemetery.
The torrential rain in the Tudun Wada area since Friday have caused
flooding which exhumed corpses from the cemetery in the Nasarawa Local
Government Area of Kano State said on Sunday.
According to a report by Punch Metro, apart from the Tudun Wada
Cemetery, some other cemeteries in the ancient city of Kano were equally
affected on Sunday as residents said the development showed that burial
grounds in the Kano metropolis were in a deplorable condition and
needed urgent attention.
Some of the residents of Tundun Wada, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, who disclosed thta incidents of flood washing away dead
bodies were not new in the town, also claimed that human skeletons, as
well as fresh corpses, had been washed out of their graves by the flood
in the area.
“Whenever there is heavy rainfall, most of our dead bodies
would be washed out and seen floating in the burial ground. We are
calling on the government to intervene and save us from an impending
epidemic," a resident said.
A correspondent who visited the area, noticed that some corpses
littered the community’s cemetery, just as it was also observed that
spaces for graves had been exhausted.
The residents revealed that they recycled some used portion of land to dig graves.
The Ward Head, Tudun Wada, Alhaji Nuhu Muhammed, said, “Residents of this area have for long been experiencing flooding. It is a source of worry to us.”
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