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NIGERIA

Flood death toll crosses 150

The death toll from deadly flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger rose to 151 on Saturday, the local emergency service said. Torrents of predawn rainfall on Thursday unleashed the devastating flood on Mokwa, nearly 380 kilometers west of capital Abuja. The spokesman for the Niger state emergency service, Ibrahim Audu Husseini, confirmed the fatality count to The Associated Press on Saturday.