Bébédjia
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Bébédjia was a village in Logone Oriental Prefecture
(now Logone Oriental Region
) in Chad
which was obliterated from existence in a May 9, 2007 tornado
which killed 14 people and injured over 100.
Logone Oriental Prefecture
This article refers to one of the former prefectures of Chad. From 2002 the country was divided into 18 regions.Logone Oriental was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad. Located in the southwest of the country, Logone Oriental covered an area of 28,035 square kilometers and had a population of 441,064...
(now Logone Oriental Region
Logone Oriental Region
Logone Oriental is one of the 22 regions of Chad and its capital is Doba. It is composed by the former Logone Oriental Prefecture.-Subdivisions:The region of Logone Oriental is divided in 4 departments:-Demography:...
) in Chad
Chad
Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...
which was obliterated from existence in a May 9, 2007 tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
which killed 14 people and injured over 100.