Heavy rains cause flooding in Somalia’s Mogadishu, killing seven

At slightest 7 radical person died, and main roads were chopped disconnected aft dense rains led to flooding successful Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

The determination medication spokesperson, Abdinasir Hirsi Idle, said connected Saturday that rescue efforts were continuing.

“The decease toll could emergence due to the fact that the rains were dense and lasted for respective hours, causing 9 houses to illness crossed antithetic neighbourhoods, and astatine slightest six large roads to endure terrible damage,” helium said.

Somalia has successful the past suffered utmost clime shocks, including prolonged adust seasons that person caused droughts and dense rains resulting successful floods.

Friday’s rains went connected for astir 8 hours, leaving waist-high waters successful neighbourhoods wherever immoderate residents were trapped and others were forced to determination to higher ground.

A resident, Mohamed Hassan, told The Associated Press quality bureau that immoderate older radical were inactive trapped.

“We spent the nighttime connected rooftops, shivering from the cold, and I haven’t adjacent had breakfast,” helium said.

Floodwaters besides damaged cardinal infrastructure, halting nationalist transport and temporarily disrupting operations astatine the main Aden Abdulle airport. Officials aboriginal confirmed flights had resumed.

The Somalia Disaster Management Agency has not yet released an authoritative decease toll, but it said the appraisal was nether mode to find the grade of the damage.

The country’s Ministry of Energy and Water Resources said successful a connection connected Saturday that “a important magnitude of rainfall, exceeding 115mm, was recorded successful implicit 8 consecutive hours” and warned of flash floods successful different regions extracurricular the capital.