HARARE: More than 100 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Sunday after tropical cyclone Idai barrelled across the southern African nations with flash floods and ferocious winds.
"So far we looking at 65 people that have lost their lives," Joshua Sacco, lawmaker for Chimanimani, told AFP by phone."We are looking at probably 150 to 200 people missing," he said. Tropical cyclone Idai battered central Mozambique on Friday, cutting off more than half a million residents of the port city Beira.
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