Mozambique death toll rises to 417 as southern African cyclone and floods claim at least 732 lives in the region
Rosita Moises Zacarias , 15, holding the hand of her sister Joaninha Manuel, 9, walks in flooded waters from their house destroyed by the cyclone Idai to go to seep in a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique. March 22, 2019.
Cyclone Idai lashed the Mozambican port city of Beira with wind s of up to 170 kilometres per hour last week, then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi, swamping populations and devastating homes."The situation is getting better, still critical, but it's getting better," he told reporters at the airport in Beira that has become a centre for aid operations.
In all three countries, survivors have been digging through rubble to search for victims, and scrambling for shelter, food and water, while governments and aid agencies rush in help. At the refuge, families cooked with wood from trees ripped up by the storm, as toddlers played around battered school desks. Manuel wore a necklace with the word "Hope.""When it all started, people started screaming," another survivor Dina Fiegado, 18, said, describing how sheet rooves blew off and rough walls collapsed in the sea-edge community of Praia Nova, where residents said about 50 people died.
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