A heavy rainstorm swept through the Tamale metropolis last Wednesday night, leaving in its wake destruction of properties.
There were no reported cases of fatalities, but some persons were confirmed to have received minor injuries.
The storm, which was accompanied by thunder and lightning, started a few minutes after 7:00 p.m. and continued for more than two hours.
The city was eventually thrown into darkness as the lights went off for some time as a result of the intensity of the rain.
Apart from ripping off roofs of some houses, the storm completely destroyed a number of houses while many trees were uprooted.
Electrical and telephone poles and wires were also damaged. Also destroyed were container shops and billboards of various kinds and sizes.
The Northern Regional office of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) was not spared. The building housing the seed company had its roof completely ripped off, exposing some facilities and seeds to the rains.
When the Daily Graphic toured some parts of the metropolis yesterday morning, the debris was littered all over the place with the victims picking up the pieces.
Others were, however, still bemused by the level of destruction and were yet to come to terms with the fact that their toils and sweats for years had gone down the drain just in one night.
Some of them were wondering how they could gather resources to reconstruct the structures they had toiled over the years to put up.
A trader, Hajia Zakaria Bintu, whose four-bedroom house got destroyed, appealed to the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and other organisations to come to their aid.
According to the NADMO, they were still assessing the impact of the storm in the area.
On how they would support the victims, the Deputy Northern Regional Co-ordinator of NADMO, Mr Chris Tanga, acknowledged that currently his outfit had run out of stock and that after the assessment requests would be made to bring in support from Accra.RAIN
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