Sad: Postgraduate Student Heading For Exams Drowns In Flood

CURSORY: Female PG student dies due to a heavy flood on her way to take her exams.

A middle-aged lady whose name is yet to be given has tragically died. The lady is reportedly feared dead after she was swept away by the ravaging flood across the East-West road.

Reports state that she drowned due to the impact of the heavy currents while trekking across the Okobe-Ahoada axis of the East-West Road from Yenagoa to Port Harcourt.

An eye witness who was traveling en route Yenagoa to Port Harcourt said the sad incident happened early Friday morning during the heavy downpour as commuters dropped from their commercial buses to cross by leg to the Ahoada axis of the East-West Road.

He continued: “We didn’t notice her until the ravaging floods swept her off her feet as other pedestrians in her company scampered for safety.“

A few tried pulling her out of the heavy current flowing southwards into the Mangrove creeks, but it was to no avail.

Reports gathered that the middle-aged lady hailed from Bayelsa and was a Post Graduate student of the Faculty of Humanities, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, former COE, and was heading to write her exams scheduled to begin today.

Many pedestrians were still stranded at the flood-ravaged Okobe axis of the East-West Road while trucks and drivers of heavy-duty vehicles were making brisk business faring passengers across the troubled spots for as high as three thousand naira from Mbiama to Choba and a thousand naira to cross the troubled one kilometre stretch of the East-West Road which is threatening to cave in as the ravaging flood increased its waters and heavy current flow.

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