The Benue State Government on Tuesday declared the loss of 23 persons due to floods across the state.
It also declared that 74 persons were injured in the flood that ravaged 11 local government areas of the state.
The affected local government areas are Guma, Vandeikya, Otukpo, Katsina-Ala, Makurdi, Apa, Agatu, Tarka, Gboko, Gwer West and Logo.
The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency and Maintenance Agency, Emmanuel Shior, who disclosed this during the distribution of relief materials to the displaced persons, added that 116,084 persons had been displaced across the state.
Shior, who gave statistics of the affected communities, explained that 14,040 hectares of land were washed away, adding that 12,856 households were displaced.
He further said 4,411 houses were submerged.
Shior added that water in some parts of the state were contaminated due to the flooding.
Shior said NEMA had promised to also bring food and non-food items, just as he said the state government would be distributing many truck loads of rice and noodles to the flood victims beginning from Agatu, which is the hardest hit.
