Around Agbofieti, residents were seen hastily packing their belongings, and looking for safe haven.

There was a rumour that a family allegedly lost their breadwinner and a child, after they lost control of their vehicle around Aba Alfa area and were washed away by the moving water.

However, a woman in the said vehicle was said to have been rescued. Omololu Olumuyiwa, a source living in the Gbekuba area disclosed, in a telephone call that the flood trapped some families in their homes.

He claimed to have seen people calling for help as they could not again access to the link road out of the area.

According to olumuyiwa, “some residents have taken a bold step, using linking fences to the house where people were trapped for a rescue mission.

As of press time, three of the trapped persons in the house had been rescued while the volunteers were seen trying to rescue the remaining trapped persons.

Also, around Agbofieti, hoodlums have used the opportunity posed by the flooding to wreck havoc on residents in the area. Posing as rescue volunteers, the hoodlums were said to have robbed homes in the process.