A four-hour torrential rains in the Upper West Region have left over hundred residents homeless and properties destroyed in the Wa Municipality due to flooding.

It is the first time in five years the region is experiencing such torrential rains with its accompanying flooding situation.

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has been involved in a joint search and rescue operations with the National Fire Service and the Police.

Isaac Seidu, NADMO Coordinator, told Radio Ghana in an interview, Friday, that the flood situation is so terrible that they have to divide the municipality into 68 sections for the search and rescue exercise.

“For the last five years, the municipality has never experienced floods. This is the first time and it is so terrible”, he noted.

Asked whether they have been able to assess the level of damage caused, Mr. Seidu answered in the negative and stressed that ” unless they are done with their search and rescue operation before they will be able to assess the level of damage caused by the floods”.

He said they have been able to evacuate all affected persons to a higher ground and advised them to contact their family and friends for shelter.

Those who will not be able to get help from their family and friends, he noted, will be taken care of.

The directive, he added, was as a result of limited logistics at their disposal.