
Niger floods claim 35 lives, leave over 26,000 homeless
Heavy rains lashing arid Niger since June have killed 35 people and made more than 26,500 homeless, the civil protection agency said on Saturday. Twenty people died in a building that collapsed, 15 drowned and 24 were injured, a statement said. A total of 26,532 people had to leave their houses, it said. The worst-hit…