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PICS: Hundreds of people are dead, more still missing and thousands at risk from massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai. PrayForZimbabwe PrayForMozambique

In this photo supplied by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre survivors of Cyclone Idai arrive by rescue boat in Beira, Mozambique. Picture: Denis Onyodi - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre via APA man passes through a section of the road damaged by Cyclone Idai in Nhamatanda about 50 kilometres from Beira, in Mozambique. Picture: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/APPeople go on their morning errands amid the shattered city of Beira.

Aid workers are seeing many children who have been separated from their parents in the chaos or orphaned. The U.N. chief said in a statement that "with crops destroyed in the breadbasket of Mozambique more people are at risk of food insecurity in all three countries.""The situation is simply horrendous. There is no other way to describe it," As Sy said after touring camps for the growing number of displaced. "Three thousand people who are living in a school that has 15 classrooms and six, only six, toilets.

And yet there were flashes of life as it used to be. White wedding dresses stood pristine behind a shop window that hadn't shattered. She and others now homeless begged passers-by for help, saying they had received nothing from the government or aid groups, not even bread.

 

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