Drone footage shows scale of damage that Cyclone Idai has inflicted onto Mozambique, with the country's president saying that the death toll could reach as high as 1,000.
Rapidly rising floodwaters have created"an inland ocean" in Mozambique endangering scores of thousands of families, aid workers said Tuesday as they scrambled to rescue survivors of Cyclone Idai who clung to rooftops and trees.
Mozambique's Pungue and Buzi rivers had overflowed, creating"inland oceans extending for miles and miles in all directions," Verhoosel said. Dams have reached 95 percent to 100 percent capacity. "It's dire," Caroline Haga of the Red Cross told The Associated Press from Beira."We did an aerial surveillance yesterday and saw people on rooftops and in tree branches. The waters are still rising and we are desperately trying to save as many as possible."
Torrential rain was still lashing the region, and Buzi town could be entirely submerged within 24 hours, the aid group said.The city and surrounding areas have no power and nearly all communication lines have been destroyed. Beira's main hospital has been badly damaged. The cities of Dondo and Chimoio are also badly affected.
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