Nigeria, June 20 -- Faridah Ishaq is the sole survivor of the Mokwa flood in her family.

Leaning against a wall at an open refugee camp in c area of Mokwa in Niger State, the 36-year-old mother of six recounted how the flash floods took everything from her.

Mrs Ishaq lived in the same house with her co-wife and their husband, but none of them survived. Her six children, husband, co-wife, and four stepchildren are now memories.

"We had no route for an escape," she muttered. "The whole place was filled with floodwaters, and I went back inside with my children, confused."

Her children were swept away in a flash as the water coursed through the densely populated Tiffin Maza and Anguwar Hausawa neighbourhoods on 29 May. Mrs Ishaq was myste...