Idai devastation clearer by the hour: UN
and Malawi, found more than three million people in its path. Mozambique’s President says the death toll could exceed 1 000 in his country alone.Five days after the storm made landfall in Mozambique, victims are reportedly trapped on roofs and clinging to trees awaiting rescue, as floodwaters continue to rise.
Matthew Cochrane of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies followed by Christope Boulierac of the UN Children’s Fund. “It was very difficult to land a plane like this. Can you imagine in an airport, damaged by the water, dark with no light or radio communication with the control tower, nothing. I mean, those pilots are incredible.”
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