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Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 30 people and affected more than one million others, the authorities have said.
The collapse of the Alau dam on the Ngadda river in Borno State on Tuesday caused some of the state’s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ago, and prompted residents to flee their homes.
The state government said on Wednesday that the dam was at capacity due to unusually high rains. Officials expected the death toll to rise.
The current flooding comes nearly two years after Nigeria’s worst flooding in a decade killed more than…
