1000 feared dead in ‘horrifying’ Mozambique cyclone

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A national disaster has been declared after Cyclone Idai left a trail of death, destruction and homelessness in southern Africa.

The cyclone struck Beira, an Indian Ocean port city of half a million people late Thursday and then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi with strong winds and heavy rain.

Members of the public and military personnel search for survivors and bodies in eastern Zimbabwe on March 18 after the area was hit by the Cyclone Idai. Picture: Zinyange Aunton /AFPPeople on a roof surrounded by flooding in Beira. Picture: Rick Emenaket/Mission Aviation FellowshipDoctors Without Borders said rivers had broken their banks and left houses fully submerged, with about 11,000 households displaced in Nsanje, in southern Malawi.

“I was indoors with my children, but when we looked we saw mud coming down the road towards the houses and we fled,” Francisco Carlitos told Lusa, the Portuguese News Agency.Telma fa Gloria, a street vendor in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, told Reuters she had not heard from her mother or her siblings, for days. Her mother’s neighbourhood was in one of the worst-hit areas.

 

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