A top official with one of the nation’s intelligence services was on Sunday night killed by flash floods when around his estate, Trademore, on the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Expressway, popularly known as Airport Road.
The flood also killed two individuals in the estate.

The intelligence official who was said to be a top executive of the Department of State Services DSS was said to have gone out to get drugs from a pharmacy while it was raining.Eyewitnesses said he and his car were swept away by the rampaging flood, adding that residents in the area, tried without success, to stop the DSS operative from driving through the flooded area, but their warning came too late.

Ome of the residents said; “Lives lost. Homes destroyed. Businesses ruined. Cars uprooted and carried away and families rendered homeless. A man in a Rover was reportedly swept by the flood into the bridge by the Police Station and was found dead.

“A young lady who served out her NYSC in an office years ago is looking for the car she parked outside last night. Probably her biggest investment from savings and loans.

“The owner of a Supermaket in the estate had his home and cars destroyed, his family has moved into the supermarket for shelter.