Survivors have taken refuge in trees while awaiting help.
Idai made landfall in Mozambique last week bringing with it flash floods and ferocious winds. CourtesyBEIRA - More than a thousand people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores were killed and more than 200 are missing in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai's full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighbouring Zimbabwe,"For the moment we have registered 84 deaths officially, but when we flew over the area... this morning to understand what's going on, everything indicates that we could register more than 1,000 deaths," Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said in a nationwide address.
"The scale of damage... Beira is massive and horrifying", the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. Ninety percent of the city of some 530,000 people and its surrounding area has been"damaged or destroyed," it said in a statement."Almost everything is destroyed. Communication lines have been completely cut and roads have been destroyed. Some affected communities are not accessible."
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