Intense rains and winds started to lash parts of Mozambique on Saturday as Tropical Cyclone Freddy bore down on the country for the second time.
Intense rains and winds started to lash parts of Mozambique on Saturday as Tropical Cyclone Freddy bore down on the country for the second time in as many weeks, authorities said.
"The system reduced its speed from seven to four kph, thus delaying its entry," INAM said in an update. The cyclone was expected to make a second landfall in Mozambique later this weekend, after a first deadly hit in late February."There is already quite substantial flooding," Guy Taylor, a spokesman for the United Nations' children agency UNICEF, told AFP from the seaport of Quelimane, in Zambezia, on Saturday."We saw people with water in their houses, wading through knee-deep water. And that's just with this initial bit of rain.
It crossed the entire southern Indian Ocean and battered Madagascar from February 21, crossing the island before reaching Mozambique on February 24.
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