Cyclone Kenneth, a Category Three storm on the hurricane scale, made landfall in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province late Thursday.
In this photo provided by United Nations Children's Agency , damaged buildings are seen after Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in Pemba, Mozambique, Friday, April 26, 2019. Picture: Neidi de Car valho/UNICEF via AP
Cyclone Kenneth, a Category Three storm on the hurricane scale, made landfall in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province late Thursday after swiping the Comoros islands. It made landfall a day later, killing one person and wrecking thousands of homes. Mozambique’s emergencies agency, the INGC, reported a death caused by a falling coconut tree in the port city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado’s provincial capital, along with severe flooding, mudslides and widespread power outages.
“The INGC tell us to come here to make an evaluation of the situation,” Captain Kleber Castro of the Brazil rescue service told AFP on the tarmac at Pemba airport. “It looks like the island has been bombed… It is biblical,” said Kevin Record, a South African tour operator and owner of a hotel on Ibo.“A lot of people can be impacted in the region where the flooding is large and widespread,” said Castro.
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