Kenya floods leave 112 dead in two months

04 May 2018 / 18:09 H.
    Kenya floods leave 112 dead in two months
    Villagers at Onkolde in Kenya's Tana River delta region struggled with flood water after the river burst its banks. More than 60,000 people have displaced from the area, according to the Kenya Red Cross. — AFP

NAIROBI: Flooding across Kenya triggered by weeks of torrential rain has left 112 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands of others, the Red Cross said Friday.
Kenya Red Cross Secretary General Abbas Gullet made an appeal for US$5 million (RM19 million) to help those affected in 32 counties.
Since early March, "112 people have lost their lives countrywide", he told a press conference.
"About 48,177 households have been displaced so far and this translates to 260,200 people that are displaced," he said.
Gullet said over 8,500ha of crops had been destroyed and some 20,000 animals washed away, while more than a hundred schools had been affected, many of which remain closed.
The disaster comes after three failed rainy seasons inflicted a crippling drought that sent food prices soaring and left more than three million people requiring food aid. — AFP

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