destroyed about 300 houses during in the community.
Five persons were also reported to have sustained varying degrees of injury in the incident which occurred last Friday.
The Executive Secretary of the Katsina State Emergency Management Agency, Dr. Aminu Waziri, who confirmed the incident to journalists on Tuesday, said the windstorm caused great havoc in the new community.
He revealed that the boy died after a fence collapsed on him during the windstorm.
Waziri added that the agency had already carried out “immediate cautionary intervention of providing the displaced persons with foodstuffs.”
He added that assessment was on to ascertain the level of damage and the loss suffered by individuals, after which government would provide relief materials for the affected persons to help them resume their normal lives.
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