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Views of the floods at Aboisso
© Koaci.com- Sunday, July 15, 2018 – The flood of the Bia River has plunged the population of Aboisso in total anxiety since last Friday with rising water caused by the overflow of the surplus of water at the Ayamé dam.
This flood due to heavy rains, again caused Sunday morning floods in the city, as reported by KOACI
The provisional balance sheet mentions two deaths, 500 victims including 200 relocated to temporary sites.
Joint, the General Secretary of Aboisso Prefecture, Sidiki Coulibaly, says that the river Bia, which has its source in Ghana, a neighboring country to Côte d'Ivoire, is out of bed, a phenomenon due to global warming.
A man in his thirties, identified as a Nigerian trying to cross a pond in the "Four Palm Trees" neighborhood, was swept away by the waters and found dead. The second death occurred in a village in Aboisso, according to an agent of the gendarmerie.
After the floods of Abidjan rivers, it is currently the area of Aboisso which is hit by heavy rains. Faced with this exceptional flood situation, the Ivorian company of electricity (CIE), the company in charge of the distribution of the current in the country had invited the inhabitants of Aboisso to kindly observe the measures of vigilance and prudence in the vicinity of the river
Recall that the torrential rains that occurred in Abidjan on 18 and 19 June resulted in 18 deaths and two more in the interior of the country, for a total of 20 deaths, which led the government to commit to Ivorian economic capital the destruction of the constructions carried out on the basins of storm of drainage.
Jean Chrésus with KOACI
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