A yet-to-be-identified young lady has been recovered dead after a heavy downpour in Enugu State on Saturday evening.
The lifeless body was recovered on Chief SN Ugwu Street, off Cornerstone Road, Abakpa, in the Enugu East Local Government Area.
JOURNALIST101 gathered that the lady was swept away by the flooding at Timber Market, where she reportedly went to dispose of waste in the drainage during the downpour.
A witness stated that while they sought shelter at the market due to the heavy rain, she saw the lady approaching the large drainage to throw in some waste but was unfortunately carried away by the flooding.
“We saw the body floating inside the drainage,” a resident who identified herself as Chioma told a Journalist101 correspondent.
“Her body was caught by a iron roads in one of the culverts on the, and despite the heavy flooding, we managed to recover her,” she continued.
“When she was brought out,she was no longer breathing.”
Journalist101 understands that the body had traveled over 800 meters inside the drainage before being recovered.
As of the time of this report, police operatives from the Abakpa Police Division have taken the body away.
