Ninety percent of the city of Beira, with some 530,000 people, and its surrounding area has been 'damaged or destroyed'.
This handout picture taken and released on March 18, 2019, by the Mission Aviation Fellowship shows people on a roof surrounded by flooding in an area affected by Cyclone Idai in Beira. Picture: AFP PHOTO / MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP / RICK EMENAKET
“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.Aerial photographs released by a Christian non-profit organisation, the Mission Aviation Fellowship, showed groups of people stuck on roof tops with flood waters up to window level.
“Some dams have broken, and others have reached full capacity, they’ll very soon open the flood gates. It’s a convergence of flooding, cyclones, dams breaking and making a potential wave: everything’s in place so we get a perfect storm.” “There was a lot of destruction both on our facilities and on people,” said Shiri, speaking on television from the affected eastern highlands region.
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