PICS: Mozambique mourns, Zimbabwe buries CycloneIdai victims
Soldiers and paramedics carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe. Picture: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/APSoldiers carry injured survivors from a helicopter in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare. Picture: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/APIn this photo supplied by World Food Programme, flood waters cover large tracts of land in Nicoadala, Zambezia Province of Mozambique.
The death toll is rising in both countries, but the full number of those killed and damage done will only be known when torrential floodwaters recede. Persistent rains are forecast through Thursday so it will be days before the plains of Mozambique drain toward the Indian Ocean. Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is to visit on Wednesday the hard-hit mountain community of Chimanimani on the eastern border with Mozambique. Some 300 people may have died in Zimbabwe as a result of the cyclone, say officials.
Mozambican officials say its death toll is 200 and rising. Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said earlier this week he expects fatalities to be more than 1 000.
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