Cyclone Idai claims 48 lives in Mozambique, 39 in Zimbabwe
Maputo - At least 48 people have been killed in Mozambique and 39 in neighbouring Zimbabwe after tropical cyclone Idai tore through the two southern African countries, officials and media said Sunday.
Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Mangwana told AFP that the death toll in the country was "is now at 39".He said most of the deaths occurred in the Ngangu township situated in a valley in Chimanimani town, where more than 100 houses were washed away. The United Nations said more than 100 people are missing in Zimbabwe and that up to 9,600 were affected by the cyclone.
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who cut short his visit to Abu Dhabi, has declared a state of disaster in the affected areas.Tropical cyclone Idai battered central Mozambique on Friday, cutting off more than half a million residents of the port city Beira.
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