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Heavy rainfall in Akungba, Akoko Southwest Local Government Area of Ondo state has led to the death of Doyin, a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo state.
The deceased who hails from Ekiti State, was reported to have been dragged to an unknown location by the flood from a canal close to her resident.
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The downpour which began around 2:45pm on Monday and lasted until 12:15pm on Tuesday, rendered many homeless and destroyed valuables worth several millions of naira.
The landlord of the missing student in Ondo, Elemukona Ademola, who narrowly escaped the raging flood, said: “I have to climb cocoa tree, when many people thought I had been carried away by the flood.”
The landlord said he had made many efforts to curtail the erosion from the canal.
At the scene of the incident, the Ondo State Commissioner for Agriculture, who is also an indigene of the town, Otunba Gboyega Adefarati, paid a sympathy visit to the area.
He warned his kinsmen against building houses very close to the canal.
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The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Akungba, Shakiru Ajibola, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), confirmed the incident and said three persons, including a landlord of the house where the girl was carried away by flood, were rescued.
He noted that divers were still searching for the missing undergraduate in the rivers around the area.
