Four die of hunger in Mudug as drought bites Somalia

Four people have died of hunger and thirsty in rural areas around Adado town on Thurday as drought continues to unleash severe water shortage.

Bahda village residents said the four members of one family died over the last two days in the village which is several kilometers from Adado  town.

Residents say other families are at risk for similar fate if early action intervention is not taken.

“People were very comfortable when they had our animals. But this changed when they lost their animals. They dying one by one” an elderin  Bahda village of Mudug region told Goobjoog News.

He spelled out that the lives of hundreds of families mainly women and children might be in danger or die of thirst and hunger.

He called on international aid agencies to stand how to help droughts affected Somali people and spare their lives soon.

The water pans, boreholes and other sources of water have dried up in rural areas and livestock herders have been moving to the regions seeking water.

Somali government officials, religious leaders and scholars have expresses a deep anxiety over the life conditions of hundreds of thousands of people living in Somalia.