Cyclone Idai batters Mozambique coastal city, several injured

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Cyclone Idai dumped more water and brought destruction on areas where scores of people have already been killed and tens of thousands displaced by floods over the past week.

The streets of Beira in Mozambique after tropical storm Desmond made landfall on January 22, before the arrival of for tropical cyclone Idai, which has proceeded to wreak havoc and kill at least 70 people.A powerful tropical storm made landfall in Mozambique on Thursday evening, battering a coastal city with heavy rain and wind at speeds of up to up 170 km an hour and injuring several people.

In Beira, a city of around 500,000 people and a gateway for imports to landlocked countries in southeast Africa, Twitter images and television footage showed billboards and rooftops blown off, trees snapped and electricity cables strewn across the streets. In the northern Zambezi province, villages along the coastline were cut off from the mainland by the storm surge.

 

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