BEIRA/MOZAMBIQUE - Aid workers raced on Wednesday to help survivors and meet spiralling humanitarian needs in three poor countries battered by one of the worst storms to hit southern Africa in decades
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"Yesterday we rescued some 167 people from trees and roofs. Today we’ll continue that. Unfortunately we can’t pick up all the people, so our priority are children, pregnant women, injured people." In Zimbabwe, the death toll stood at 100 on Wednesday but was expected to surge to 300, while up to 15,000 people are estimated to have been hit by the storm.
The UN World Food Programme started dispatched more than five tonnes of emergency provisions to the affected areas, but warned the world had yet to appreciate the scale of the "massive disaster"."I don't think that the world realised yet the scale of the problem." Families were using hoes to dig through mounds of soil in search of their missing relatives, an AFP correspondent saw.
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