Around 15,000 people were still missing in Mozambique, Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said late on Thursday.
Nine-year old Emilia Joao holds a chick in Samora M. Machel secondary school turned evacuation centre, after being evacuated from the isolated district of Buzi following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai, in Beira on Friday.The situation in the port city of Beira in Mozambique was"boiling" as residents suffered shortages of food, water and other essentials one week after a devastating cyclone, the head of a South African rescue operation said on Friday.
Cyclone Idai battered Beira, a low-lying city of 500,000 residents, with strong winds and torrential rains last week, before moving inland to neighbouring Zimbabwe and Malawi. In Mozambique, 242 were killed in the storm and resulting floods, according to the official death toll, although this is expected to rise.
The government is expected to give a briefing on Friday morning to update the number of people missing and dead.
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