Shop owners in Ba Town are this morning trying to clean their shops after flooding occurred in the Western Division for the last couple of days.
Businessman, Bharat Raman Lal said there is alot of damage to shops and owners are right now literally picking up the pieces from their shops and stock.
Shop owner, Vinod Patel said the biggest problem right now for shop owners and their clean up is the lack of water adding that they are now using water from the river to clean their shops.
Several communities in the interior of Ba are believed to have been cut off from any assistance and their fate remains unknown.
District Officer Ba Nacanieli Lomani said thousands of people living along the river banks, and across the Moto bridge remain inaccessible and are in urgent need of assistance.
Lomani confirms that the number of evacuation centers have increased to 31 in the Ba area as of this morning with over 1300 people taking shelter. He said they are trying to verify information that some families in squatter settlements have lost everything in the floods and are now homeless.
Emergency rations have been provided to the evacuation centers while there is still no power and no water supply in the greater Ba area with only power restored in some parts of Ba town.
Ba Shop Owners Clean Shops
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