Over 1,000 feared dead after cyclone slams into Mozambique
Full story: http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005616577
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — More than 1,000 people were feared dead in
Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country,
submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the
floodwaters, the nation’s president said.
“It is a real disaster of great proportions,” President Filipe Nyusi said.
Cyclone Idai could prove to be the deadliest storm in generations to hit
the impoverished southeast African country of 30 million people.
It struck Beira, an Indian Ocean port city of a half-million people,
late Thursday and then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi with strong
winds and heavy rain. But it took days for the scope of the disaster to
come into focus in Mozambique, which has a poor communication and
transportation network and a corrupt and inefficient bureaucracy.
This image made available by International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Monday shows an aerial view from a
helicopter of flooding in Beira, Mozambique.
Speaking on state Radio Mozambique, Nyusi said that while the official
death toll stood at 84, “It appears that we can register more than 1,000
deaths.”
Emergency officials cautioned that while they expect the death toll to
rise significantly, they have no way of knowing if it will reach the
president’s estimate.
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