Corpses Exhumed As Cemetery Is Washed Away In Borno Massive Flooding

The massive flooding in Borno State has caused a lot of damage as it ravages through the state.

The Gwange Cemetery in Maiduguri was also washed away, leaving corpses floating in the streets.

A resident said: “The cemetery is already flat and the water pressure exhumed corpses from several graves. Women and children are traumatised by the horrific sights.”

Many patients at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) were also stranded as the facility was submerged.

Ali Galadima, whose wife was on admission at the UMTH, said patients were evacuated upstairs as the ground floor was flooded.

“She was complaining of hunger but the water level couldn’t allow me to access the hospital. In fact, many patients’ relatives are stranded looking for ways to access them,” he said.

Sources in Gwange area said many children might have drowned.

“You can see some mothers crying, looking for their little children,” he said.

A woman, who gave her name as Ya’ana, said: “I was awakened by my neighbours around 3:30am. I became terrified when I saw water gushing into our house. I tried to save my children from drowning, but I still could not see two of my children.”