Two siblings identified as Basil and Gafal aged four and three and half respectively, lost their lives. While an Abuja bond bus driver also died in the flood.
About 30 vehicles were also destroyed in the flood caused by blocked canals.
A resident of the area, Ganiyu Suleiman of Alawari
Motors, said that the bus driver, having arrived in
Ilorin late, decided to sleep in his vehicle, and was
washed away together with the bus.
Not less than eight houses around a hotel along the
road were affected as many occupants of the
buildings were seen salvaging their belongings
from the debris.
Clothes, kitchen utensils and other household items
were being retrieved from the collapsed buildings
by despondent residents.
Many of the damaged vehicles were washed away
by the force of the flood while many also
somersaulted. According to Suleiman, about 10 refrigerators
packed in front of an electronics and fridge shop
were also washed away by the flood.
Also, many water tanks and PVC pipes belonging to
a building material dealer were washed away or
damaged by the flood.
The flood also uprooted banana trees, carried them
some kilometres away and deposited them in front
of houses and the main road.
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