Torrential rains in Namentenga: More than 230 mm of water recorded

Huge rains fell in Namentenga, leaving many homeless, property damage and loss of animals. Fortunately, however, no loss of life has been recorded.
This happened on the night of July 21-22 between 11 p.m. and 1 p.m. The cumulative rainfall is 237 mm of water recorded at the pluviometric station of the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries Resources.
Urgently, the crisis committee under the leadership of Mr. Pierre Emmanuel Ouédraogo, high commissioner of the province after visiting the field, met to take stock of the situation with a view to implementing the watch structure whose primary task is to go to the field to assess the extent of the damage and begin the census of the victims.
In Boulsa, the situation on the ground is bitter. Most of the houses in Boulsa commune are affected in one way or another: either a wall or a house has fallen, or the house is totally flooded. Sector 2 is the most affected. Houses and fence walls have collapsed, animals drowned.
The inspection service of the Boulsa 2 basic education district is flooded, the cereals in the storage warehouse of the National Security Stock Management Company (SONAGESS) are wet, the ONATEL and TELECEL branches have been targeted by lightning. According to the prefect of Bouroum, the village of Bondbila is in an islet and requires canoes to be able to evacuate the populations.
In Tougouri, many victims are interned in schools. The commune of Boulsa is as a whole landlocked. Land lines of communication are impassable. To hear from each other, what they experienced is more than the disaster of September 1, because they have never seen such a height of water. Psychosis has taken hold of populations who no longer know which way to turn.
AIB / Namentenga and Jean-Baptiste DAMIBA
Sidwaya