As flood waters recede, survivors are desperately searching for loved-ones while being stuck in Beira rescue camps.
Sara Francisco survived the devastating Cyclone Idai by climbing a rooftop with her two young daughters in her rural village of Buzi after most surrounding buildings were swept away by flooding.
Help eventually came when a villager passed by in a small canoe, which brought Fransico, 24, and her daughters to a camp for displaced persons in Beira, 50km northeast of Buzi."I can't find my husband, my mother and six siblings. We were together before the floods but since I arrived to the camp, I can't locate them," Francisco told Al Jazeera.
"I have made repeated calls to their phone numbers but got no response. Some of my relations have gone back to the village to look for them but no one has seen them. I am really, really concerned." Thousands were ferried to safety - mostly to Beira, which was partly destroyed by the cyclone. Some, however, did not make it out as thousands remain missing.Twenty-eight-year-old Eduardo received word that his aging mother and two of his siblings were among the dead.
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