Vice President Mohammed Gharib Bilal is briefed yesterday on the
situation in Buguruni kwa Mnyamani, Dar es Salaam, which suffered severe
flooding after five days of almost incessant rains.
Dar es Salaam. The death toll from the heavy rains pounding Dar es Salaam rose to seven when two people were electrocuted on Sunday evening.
Those killed in Kimara kwa Kapinga were good
Samaritans who were helping a motorist after he lost control in a
downpour and hit an electricity pole.
“They were electrocuted as they attempted to push
the vehicle stuck in a ditch after hitting the electricity pole.
Apparently they were not aware of the live wires that had fallen on the
vehicle,” Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) Public Relations
Manager Adrian Mvungi said, adding the deceased were neighbours.
The driver of the car was injured in the 9pm incident and rushed to hospital.
Mr Mvungi advised city residents to stay away from
collapsed power lines and immediately alert Tanesco whenever cables
fell to the ground for whatever reason.
Three people, including two schoolchildren, were
electrocuted on Saturday in Mbagala Rangi Tatu when power lines fell
into floodwaters they were wading through.
In another incident, a resident of Mwananyamala,
Mr Edward Warioba, died after a wall of the house he was sleeping in
collapsed.
Elsewhere, the body of an unidentified man believed to have drowned was recovered near Makongo.
The Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) said
heavy rains that had lashed Tanzania’s coastal areas since last week
would continue for another two or three days.
TMA Director General Agnes Kijazi said Dar es
Salaam, Mtwara, Lindi and Tanga regions and Zanzibar would continue to
receive abnormally high rainfall.
She was speaking in the presence of Transport
minister Samuel Sitta at Julius Nyerere International Airport during a
short visit to the facility.
Dr Kijazi said arrangements were being made for people to get weather updates through their mobile phones.
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