Senegal floods: GDACS lists two deaths as government reports evolving losses
Flood
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
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In brief
- What happenedHeavy rain caused flooding, transport disruption and building damage in Dakar and other parts of Senegal after rainfall totals exceeded 100 millimetres at some gauges.
- Reported impactGDACS event observation: Green alert · 2 deaths · no displaced-person figure · event window 27 September–6 October 2026 · Government provisional statement: Deaths, injuries and material damage reported in Dakar and Matam · no precise national casualty total published · Parcelles Assainies incident: APS reports a 25-year-old mother and her four-year-old son killed after a compound wall collapse · attributed to several Senegalese media
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
Updated verified snapshot
This record was first dated 2026-09-27 and last verified 2026-10-05.
Situation
Heavy rain caused flooding, transport disruption and building damage in Dakar and other parts of Senegal after rainfall totals exceeded 100 millimetres at some gauges. GDACS event FL 1104203 covers 27 September to 6 October 2026 and lists a Green alert with two deaths and no displaced-person figure. This is retained as the GDACS national event observation and is not expanded with figures from other reports.
Senegal's Interior Ministry separately reported a provisional toll involving deaths and injuries, particularly in Dakar and Matam, without publishing a precise national count. APS reported two local incident accounts: a 25-year-old mother and her four-year-old son were killed after a compound wall collapsed at Parcelles Assainies in Dakar, attributed to several Senegalese media, while one person was killed and two were injured in a hangar collapse at Gourel Serigne in Matam, attributed to the deceased person's family. These local reports are not added to, or used to revise, the GDACS aggregate. The circumstances of a building collapse in Kaolack remained under evaluation.
The Prime Minister said the Dakar regional emergency plan would be triggered, a monitoring committee established and support organised for affected residents. The government identified sensitive sites including major roads and the Philippe Maguilen Senghor hospital area. No verified national displacement or affected-population total was published in the cited sources, and none is inferred.
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A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 3 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 7 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- GDACS event observation
- Green alert · 2 deaths · no displaced-person figure · event window 27 September–6 October 2026 retained at 2026-10-05
- Government provisional statement
- Deaths, injuries and material damage reported in Dakar and Matam · no precise national casualty total published retained at 2026-10-05
- Parcelles Assainies incident
- APS reports a 25-year-old mother and her four-year-old son killed after a compound wall collapse · attributed to several Senegalese media retained at 2026-10-05
- Gourel Serigne incident
- APS reports 1 death and 2 injuries in a hangar collapse in Matam · attributed to the deceased person's family retained at 2026-10-05
- Emergency action
- Dakar regional emergency plan to be triggered; monitoring committee and assistance measures announced by the Prime Minister retained at 2026-10-05
- Population impact
- No verified national displacement or affected-population denominator reported; none inferred retained at 2026-10-05
- Scope safeguard
- Local incident accounts are retained separately and are not added to or reconciled with the GDACS national aggregate retained at 2026-10-05
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- NHC Advisory 30 · Hurricane Simon weakened to 120 km/h at 19.3°N, 108.3°W · no coastal watches or warnings preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
- GDACS FL 1104203 · GREEN ALERT · 2 DEATHS · NO DISPLACEMENT FIGURE preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
- INTERIOR MINISTRY VIA APS · PROVISIONAL DEATHS, INJURIES AND DAMAGE · NO PRECISE NATIONAL TOTAL preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
- APS LOCAL REPORT · MOTHER AND FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON KILLED AT PARCELLES ASSAINIES preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
- APS LOCAL REPORT · 1 DEATH AND 2 INJURIES IN GOUREL SERIGNE HANGAR COLLAPSE preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
- PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE · DAKAR REGIONAL EMERGENCY PLAN AND MONITORING COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
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