A heavy windstorm has wreaked havoc in some villages of Mutum-Biyu in Gassol’s local government area of Taraba State, killing no fewer than seven persons and destroying about three hundred houses.
The deceased persons were the family of Malam Abdulhakim Hashim of Garin Magaji Ward in Mutum-Biyu.
Malam Abdulhakim Hashim, the deceased persons were planning with his 3 little children how they were going to celebrate the Eid-el-Fitr, not knowing that 2 out of them would not witness the Sallah celebration.
According to Hashim they were having a discussion with his children when the rainfall started, at around 8.40 pm on Saturday, accompanied by a windstorm.
“We have never experienced such terrible and very devastating wind in this town, even though in recent years every first rain of the year ushered in with windstorm.
“I just heard a loud sound then darkness enveloped the room we were staying with my 3 children a boy Rabi’u, 7 years old, and two girls, Sharbila 3 Years and Jummai 5 years respectively, and suddenly the room collapsed and buried us,” he said.
“My wife who was staying in another room raised an alarm and neighbors rushed into the house and removed us and the three children from the rumble of the building.
“I was brought out from the collapsed building alive, but sadly the 2 girls were dead and the boy Rabiu was alive with a fracture on his left hand,” Saleem said.
He stated that Rabi’u was taken to a Referral hospital in Mutum-Biyu where other victims of the disaster that sustained injuries in the windstorm from different parts of the town were brought for medication, ” he said.
Other areas affected are a primary school along Garin Magaji’s ward also few meters from Garin Magaji primary school, a twin room had collapsed killing two boys.
The owner of the house and father of the deceased boys,
Yakubu Inuwa who lost the two children explained that the collapsed building destroyed everything in the room and also killed his 2 children who were sleeping in the same bed at the time of the incident, Musa (4 years), and Chindo (5 years).
He noted that at the beginning the rainfall was mild, but a few minutes later it came to a powerful wind that swept everything around.
“The room my late two children were sleeping in collapsed few minutes after the windstorm started, and neighbors had rushed into our house when they heard the loud sound of the collapsed building.” He said.
Inuwa, said the 2 boys were rescued alive with serious injuries and fractures but died on the way to the hospital.
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