Aishatu Bunu described fleeing her home in Maiduguri as floodwaters rose to chest height, leaving her family to seek refuge at a gas station amidst chaos.
The floods in Maiduguri were triggered by heavy rainfall that caused a dam to overflow, impacting millions across west and central Africa.
With over 1,000 fatalities reported and hundreds of thousands displaced, the flooding disaster in Nigeria and neighboring countries marks a severe humanitarian crisis.
The scale of the disaster has made it challenging to account for the exact death toll, as officials struggle to keep up with the devastation.
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