Six killed in Nigerian windstorm


By Bosun

LAGOS, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Six people were killed and 65 others injured in a windstorm-triggered disaster in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa, the emergency management agency said on Wednesday.

The windstorm wreaked havoc on the Kafinhausa local government area of the state on Tuesday and destroyed several houses, said Yusuf Sani, head of the Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency, in a statement issued in Dutse, the state capital.

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