Landslide Gulps 13 Buildings, Sacks 28 Families in Anambra

At least, 13 family homes and properties, worth millions of naira, have been swallowed up in a gorge measuring about three hundred metres deep and 300m wide, in Amachalla village, Awka, the Anambra State capital.

The lawmaker who was invited to the location by residents, was short of words when he saw the extent of damage. He fought back tears while consoling wailing mothers, toddlers and youth, whose homes and belongings were swept away by torrential rains, urged for calm, assuring them that “something urgent is going to be done by the state government.”

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