Flooding: Govt rescues 120-year-old woman, evacuates 1,000 indigenes in Bayelsa

Thursday, 11 October 2012

A 120-year-old woman, Mrs Rhoda Tamunu, on Wednesday, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, escaped death as she was rescued from being overrun by rampaging flood, which enters the second week in the state.Also, no fewer than 1,000 indigenes from various communities were evacuated to relief camps located in the state capital.The aged woman, according to official of the State Emergency Medical Services, was rescued at the point of death, adding that her residence at Agudama-Epie, in Yena-goa Local Government Area of the state, had been submerged, while property worth millions of naira was lost to the flooding.The official, Mrs Cynthia Boufini, said the agency responded to a distress call put through one of the hotlines made available by the state government.Expressing gratitude to the state government over its efforts to ameliorate the suffering of the people, her grandson, Mr Francis Monovie, said if not for the hotlines, his grandmother would have been washed away by the flood.The victim had since been taken to the Government House clinic for medical attention.