A regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency said Monday that the victims include a mother and her three-year-old child. Their house caved in during Sunday’s six-hour-long rains in Kari, a town that sits along a stream in Bauchi state.

Aliyu Sambo said Kari Primary School had been converted into a camp to provide relief to about 1,800 people who had been displaced by the floods. He said about 150 mud houses and hundreds of livestock were washed away.

A fire service official also said Monday another house collapse in Kano killed six people. That brings the known death toll to 10.

"I was sleeping in my room when the roof of my room collapsed on me and when I managed to extricate myself I realized the whole house had collapsed," Bello said, surrounded by sympathizers.

"The room my wife and five children were sleeping in collapsed on them, killing them all," he added.

A neighbor, Hamza Abdullahi, said residents assisted in removing the bodies of the victims from the rubble of the 50 year-old house.