FLOODS continue to cause havoc in parts of the Volta Region, with Dambai in the Krachi East District the latest to be affected.
Following a heavy downpour, at the weekend, which caused the Oti River to overflow its banks, 89 communities in Dambai and the Volta Lakeside areas have been inundated with floods.
About 200 houses at Dambai and 500 in the lakeside area as well as acres of farmlands and livestock have been affected.
Hundreds of residents have been displaced and now live with families and friends while others have moved into classrooms and churches.
The Krachi East District Co-ordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Mr Donkor Attah-Gyamfi, who toured the affected areas on Monday, advised residents to yield to earlier warnings and re-locate to higher grounds.
Owners of some of the flooded houses were moving their property, including the roofing sheets of the houses, to safer grounds.
The NADMO co-ordinator appealed to benevolent organisations and institutions to come to the aid of the affected persons.
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