HUNDREDS DIE AND 300,000 HOMELESS IN HEAVY FLOODING.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: October 7, 1999 | Copyright information

Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials have opened floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and leaving more than 300,000 homeless, Nigeria's state power authority said.

Several hundred people were believed drowned after the waters were unleashed in recent days from the Jebba and Shiriro dams, 300 miles north of Lagos, the Lagos Vanguard newspaper reported yesterday.

The state-controlled News Agen...

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