A family of six persons have been drowned to death by flood in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State.
THE RAZOR gathered that the incident happened in Nzam community, and that the family was drowned in their house after it was submerged by flood.
In a trending video, youths of the community were seen bringing out corpses from their house and depositing them in an upland area.
From the circulating video, the bodies consisted of a woman, her four children and her sister.
A narrator in the video said the family was already prepared to leave for a safe place, before they were swept away by the flood.
Anambra and Kogi State have been described as the worse hit states in the recent flood.
About 81 people had lost their lives in two boat incidences in another part of Anambra; Ogbaru, just last week, while a man who had successfully evacuated his family from the flood and opted to stay back to take care of the vicinity was recently drowned in his sleep in the same Ogbaru.
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA in a press conference had said that it has commenced aerial surveillance, using helicopters, to rescue trapped residents of flooded area.
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