Flood Kills Teenager, Submerges More Communities in Bayelsa

Temedi Agbede Yerimene, a 16-year-old kid, was reportedly lost yesterday in the worsening water in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State’s Igbogene neighborhood.

The boy’s body was pulled into a deep canal near the entrance to the state capital by the swelling flood, and it has yet to be found.
It was learned yesterday that the dead, who was swimming in the rising water close to the State Ecumenical Center with his pals, was overcome by the rushing tide and swept into the enormous erosion.

The community search party’s efforts to find him were ineffective because the floodwaters, which are still rising by the minute, have engulfed half of the neighborhood.

The mother of the deceased, simply known as Mama Carol, stated that the unfortunate incident occurred at around 11 a.m. while she was away to the market to buy food for lunch. She informed THISDAY that they are natives of Amabulu in the Ojobo village of the Ekeremor LGA of the state.

She said: “I was told he had gone swimming with his companions when I got back from the market. But until one of his pals informed me that he had been dragged by the flood, I assumed he was swimming in the compound’s increasing water level.

Destiny, a different Igbogene community member, claimed that the local authorities had cautioned parents to convince their kids to stay out of the floodwaters’ raging flow in order to prevent accidents.

In the meantime, THISDAY investigations found that other settlements in the state had already been submerged by the floodwaters’ swelling tide.

One of the locations is the Secretariat of the Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA, which the swelling river has seized.

Ogbogoro, Bidemi, several areas of Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, as well as towns and communities in the Ogbia LGA, are some of the other places that have been hardest damaged.