Nzulezu: Residents Desperate For Help As Floods Destroy Community, Peeps React To Touching Video

• Residents of Nzulezu have been rendered homeless due to rising floods in the community built entirely on stilts on the Amansuri River
• In a touching video watched many times on Facebook, a young man lamented the extent of the damage to properties
• The footage, posted on Facebook by JoyNews to accentuate the plight of children and mothers, gathered reactions

Residents of Nzulezu in Jomoro District in Ghana's Western Region have been rendered homeless due to floods in the community built on a river.

Apart from residents' homes, the Catholic Church and the Community Centre are key places affected by rising water.

Young man highlights the extent of damage

In a video spotted by YEN.com.gh, a young man takes his audience on a community tour to demonstrate the scope of the problem. He added that the impacted households include children under the age of four, who are unable to swim and must remain indoors.

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The young man bemoaned the extent to which the flood had destroyed homes and forced residents to become homeless. Authorities, donors, people, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are urged to come to their aid.

The video in which the young man takes people on a tour of the flooded community was posted on Facebook by JoyNews, which raked in many views and reactions.

Watch the video below:

Videos show cars submerged after heavy rains

In a previous story, YEN.com.gh reported that areas in Accra flooded after heavy downpours.

The rains fell on the dawn of Tuesday and destroyed property and infrastructure in their wake.

A video published on Facebook shows at least five automobiles almost completely submerged in floodwaters in Adabraka, a flood-prone district in Accra.

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Also, YEN.com.gh reported that scores of people shared visuals from last Saturday evening's heavy downpours in Accra that flooded many parts of the capital.

It rained hard for hours on Saturday and early Sunday morning, flooding urban areas in the Greater Accra Region, including North Kaneshie and Kwame Nkrumah Circle, and Kasoa in the Central Region.

Some Ghanaians went to social media, namely Twitter, to share videos and photographs of floods.

Source: YEN.com.gh