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“After six hours of torrential rain the Eleyele Dam, which provided drinking water to the Nigerian city of Ibadan, could hold back the flow no longer.
Water poured over the top, flooding everything in its path.
It was nearly midnight last weekend and many people were asleep in their homes. More than 120 people – many of them children – perished.
“It was like an ocean wave making a loud noise as it came. It was very terrible,” Aleton Adejoke told the BBC.
“We managed to close our gate to stop the water rushing in. But thank God we didn’t go fishing.”
But just 30m (100 ft) from her house a tragedy was unfolding.
Floating cars
In a corrugated metal shack, eight children were trapped alone while their father was away working a night shift. Theirs was the closest house to the river and the speed of the water gave them no chance to escape.”
Read more: BBC
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