Meanwhile, the storm has also unleashed a humanitarian crisis in Malawi, forcing more than 80,000 from their homes
Women dry clothes recovered from rubble on March 19 2019 in the Ngangu township of Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, after the area was hit by cyclone Idai. Picture: AFP/ZINYANGE AUNTONYThe death toll from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zimbabwe has risen to more than 300 as rescuers race against the clock to help survivors and the UN leads the charge to provide aid.
Four days after tropical cyclone Idai made landfall, emergency teams in central Mozambique fanned out in boats and helicopters, seeking to pluck survivors from roofs and treetops in an inland sea of floodwater, sometimes at night. “Sometimes we can only save two out of five, sometimes we drop food and go to someone else who’s in bigger danger,” he said.In Nhamatanda, about 60km northwest of Beira, Jose Batio and his wife and children survived by climbing onto a roof. But a lot of their neighbours “were swept away by the water”, he said.
Nyusi, speaking on Tuesday after attending a cabinet meeting in the ravaged city, said the confirmed death toll stood at 202 and nearly 350,000 were “at risk”. Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world, was also hit by deadly floods in 2000 that killed 800 people and left at least 50,000 homeless.The storm also lashed eastern Zimbabwe, leaving about 100 dead and a death toll that could rise to as much as 300, local government minister July Moyo said after a cabinet briefing.
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