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Peo­ple search in flood­ed area fol­low­ing a down­pour in Mok­wa, Nige­ria, Fri­day, May 30, 2025. (AP Pho­to/Ch­en­e­mi Ba­maiyi)

The death toll from dev­as­tat­ing flood­ing in a mar­ket town in Nige­ria’s north-cen­tral state of Niger rose to at least 151 on Sat­ur­day, the lo­cal emer­gency ser­vice said, amid ef­forts to find more vic­tims.

Tor­rents of predawn rain­fall ear­ly Thurs­day un­leashed the dev­as­tat­ing flood on Mok­wa, near­ly 380 kilo­me­tres (236 miles) west of Abu­ja and a ma­jor trad­ing and trans­porta­tion hub where north­ern Niger­ian farm­ers sell beans, onions and oth­er food to traders from the south.