Residents Swim To Their Houses As Flood Sacks Delta Communities (Photos)

The impact of the flood in Delta State has caused the victims who could not access their homes, to resort to swimming and using canoes.

More than 5,000 people have been rendered homeless, with while hundreds of hectares of farmland and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed in Isoko South LGA of Delta State.

The affected communities include: Akemu and Asarueha camps, Odabor all in Ikpide-Irri riverine community; Uzere, Ivrogbo-Irri, Araya, Emede, Umeh, among other communities in the local government council.