At least two people have been killed in Puntland state after the car they were traveling in was swept by flood waters at Yalho locality along Bossaso-Qardho roads.
Reports from northern Somalia indicate that villages have been inundated After Sagar, a relatively rare tropical storm in those areas.
Director General of Puntland Interior Ministry, Mohamed Ali Nuur who confirmed the flooding fatalities said the victims had been affected by the floods of heavy rains in those areas.
“We have received reports of flooded areas and there are fatalities including the death of two people whose vehicle was swept away by floods after heavy rain,” said Nuur.
Sagar Storm reportedly brought strong winds, heavy rain and flooding to areas between Somaliland and Puntland.
United States military agency has put the storm’s wind intensity at up to 100 kilometers per hour as Sagar crosses over warm waters before reaching land.
It was positioned by 166 kilometers South of Aden, Yemen, and about 135 kilometers from Somalia’s coast.
UN Food and Agriculture Organizations has expressed concern over the potential for heavy rains and flash flooding.
The UN has warned that winds and heavy rain will likely reach inland to Ethiopia on Sunday afternoon, although Sagar is likely to be a tropical depression by then.
The first was tropical storm 1A which made landfall in Northern in 1984.
The then central government of Somali had evacuated significant number of people in these areas.
The World Meteorological Organization said just three similar storms have occurred in the Gulf of Aden since 1968.
The UK Met Office on Wednesday said similar events in Yemen in 2008 and Somalia in 2013 have led to hundreds of human fatalities, the large-scale loss of crops and livestock, and destruction of property and infrastructure.
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