At least 20 persons are feared dead after flood occasioned by heavy rain ravaged communities in Suleja, a town located near the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory of Abuja on Sunday.

The heavy downpour which lasted for more than 12 hours, also inundated farmlands and destroyed property worth millions of naira.

According to residents in Hi, one of the affected communities, the downpour took the residents unawares as it started in the evening of Saturday and lasted till Sunday afternoon, trapping several people inside their homes.

There were similar stories in the other affected communities of Baki-Iku and Chanchania. An eyewitness in Chanchania said a man named Danjuma lost his family of six to the flood as they were swept away while sleeping.

A day earlier, residents of Lekki and Victoria Island in the city of Lagos, south west Nigeria  were devastated by a flood which also destroyed property worth millions of naira.