LAGOS, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- At least 357,300 people were affected by recent flood incidents in Nigeria's northeast state of Adamawa, an official said Monday.
Some 7,893 houses were also affected, Muhammad Sulaiman, head of the State Emergency Management Agency, told reporters in Yola, the state capital.
He said the state has sent the list of destruction caused by the floods to the National Emergency Management Agency in Abuja, the capital, for support.
Sulaiman called on the federal government to take urgent action to support affected families.
At least 200 people have been killed so far by floods across Nigeria this year, according to government data; some 1,300 people have been reportedly injured and nearly 2 million affected by the recent flooding in areas along the Niger and Benue rivers in Nigeria.
