'Great floods have sowed mourning and devastation in various areas of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi,' Pope Francis said on Wednesday.
A woman is carried on a stretcher after being carried by a helicopter in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean government said that nearly 100 people have died, with more than 200 others missing.Mozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after a powerful cyclone and flooding killed hundreds of people and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.
Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique's port city of Beira with winds of up to 170 kph on Thursday last week, then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi, flattening buildings and putting the lives of millions of people at risk. Drone footage showed residents of a shantytown at the port still picking through wreckage days after the storm hit and trying to drag plastic sheeting over their ruined homes.
The film, released by the Red Cross, showed the settlement pockmarked with empty plots where the winds had blown whole buildings from their foundations. "Great floods have sowed mourning and devastation in various areas of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi," Pope Francis said on Wednesday.Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi said a day earlier that the cyclone had killed more than 200 people in his country but rescuers were still discovering more bodies.
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