At least 150 people killed and many more missing after torrential rains cause flooding in Mokwa city in Niger State.

Torrents of predawn rain unleashed deadly flooding that killed scores of people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south, officials said Friday, as they predicted that the death toll would grow.

Adamu Yusuf's life has been upended since he lost nine of his family members in Tiffin Maza, one of two communities in his town worst-hit by floods in north-central Nigeria.The father-of-one, 36, said his wife and newborn baby were among those washed away in floods early on Thursday morning in Niger state.