MOZAMBIQUE
Mass Devastation
Cyclone Idai may have killed as many as 1,000 people in Mozambique, President Filipe Nyusi said after flying over some of the worst hit areas of the country on Monday.
The storm made landfall on Thursday near the port city of Beira, but aid workers were only able to reach the site to take stock of the devastation on Sunday, the BBC reported. So far, the official death toll is recorded as 84.
But with winds of up to 106 miles per hour, the cyclone left almost nothing in its path undamaged.
“No building is untouched. There is no power. There is no telecommunications. The streets are littered with fallen electricity lines,” said Gerald Bourke of the United Nations’ World Food Program.
President Nyusi described seeing bodies floating in the rivers as he flew overhead.
In Zimbabwe, too, at least 98 people have died and 217 people are missing, while in Malawi flooding associated with the storm killed at least 122 people.
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