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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Seventeen persons have sustained varying degrees of injuries following a heavy downpour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mohammed Goje, Executive Secretary Yobe Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), disclosed this to newsmen in Damaturu on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He said the incident, which occurred at 12:30 midnight of Sunday, also resulted to flooding in communities within the metropolis, leading to building collapse.<\/p>\n

Among the injured victims, according to him, were 6 adults, 7 children, as well as 4 infants.<\/p>\n

\u201cAround 12:30 Midnight of Sunday after a heavy rainfall in Damaturu, which resulted to flooding in communities behind white House and Ali Marami areas, Yobe SEMA received a distress call of building collapse with children and infants trapped in the collapse building.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the support of volunteers, SEMA was able to evacuate all the 17 victims from the 4 affected households.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victims are currently on admission and receiving medical treatment free at the Yobe State Specialist Hospital, Damaturu\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

He lauded medical team at the State Specialist Hospital\u2019s Accident and Emergency unit for their tremendous effort in responding to the victims.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Seventeen persons have sustained varying degrees of injuries following a heavy downpour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital. Dr. Mohammed Goje, Executive Secretary Yobe Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), disclosed this to newsmen in Damaturu on Sunday. He said the incident, which occurred at 12:30 midnight of Sunday, also resulted to flooding in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,7841,254,334],"class_list":["post-67356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-nigeria","tag-yobe"],"yoast_head":"\n17 persons injured as heavy rainfall sacks many families in Yobe - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Seventeen persons have sustained varying degrees of injuries following a heavy downpour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"17 persons injured as heavy rainfall sacks many families in Yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seventeen persons have sustained varying degrees of injuries following a heavy downpour in Damaturu, the Yobe State capi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-26T15:13:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-26T16:49:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_1-62b88dd815873.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"481\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"17 persons injured as heavy rainfall sacks many families in Yobe\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-26T15:13:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-26T16:49:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_1-62b88dd815873.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"heavy rainfall\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yobe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/17-persons-injured-as-heavy-rainfall-sacks-many-families-in-yobe\",\"name\":\"17 persons injured as heavy rainfall sacks many families in Yobe - 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