The Niger State Emergency Management Agency has revealed that eight dead bodies have so far been retrieved following a downpour in Rafi-Gora village and Gangare Saji in Kontagora Local Government Area of the state.

The Director-General of the agency, Alhaji Ibrahim Inga, disclosed this in Minna on Tuesday.

Inga said that seven teenage girls were washed away by flood in Rafin-Gora market, while three children died in Anguwan Gangare Saji in Kontagora as a result of the flood.

He said that the teenage girls were inside a shop in Rafi-Gora market when the flood struck, while the three children fell inside sewage while attempting to remove a shoe from the facility.

He said that the dead bodies were recovered by local divers in collaboration with desk officers of NSEMA.

He said one boy was rescued alive by a truck driver plying the road in Rafi-Gora village.

“The boy that survived was holding tight to a tree when the truck driver saw him and rescued him,” the director-general said.

He said efforts were being made to recover the remaining missing bodies.