Some Lagos residents were displaced and property destroyed after flood swept through different parts of the state on Thursday following torrential rainfall.
While a four-year-old girl, identified simply as Azizat, was swept away by flood, a woman was killed after her house collapsed due to the intensity of the rain.
Several persons were also reportedly injured and rushed to different hospitals after their houses collapsed.
Naijalog gathered that Azizat, who resided with her parents on Fashola Street, Papa Ashafa, Orile Agege, had attempted to flee with her family when the flood submerged the compound.
She was said to have fallen into a drainage channel and was swept away by the floodwater.
The incident was said to have thrown residents into panic, as they lamented the rate at which their houses were flooded by the downpour, which started on Wednesday.
Our correspondents were told that officials of the National Emergency Management Agency and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency had commenced a search-and-rescue operation for Azizat.
On Unity Close in the Magodo area of the state, an unidentified woman was reported to have lost her life after a building collapsed in the area.
The Public Relations Officer of LASEMA, Nosa Okunbor, said the woman’s corpse had been deposited in a morgue before the arrival of the agency’s response team.