BEIRA, Mozambique - A cyclone that ripped across Mozambique and Zimbabwe has killed at least 162 people with scores more missing and caused 'massive and horrifying' destruction in the Mozambican city of Beira, authorities and the Red Cross said Monday (March 18).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIRA, Mozambique - A cyclone that ripped across Mozambique and Zimbabwe has killed at least 162 people with scores more missing and caused"massive and horrifying" destruction in the Mozambican city of Beira, authorities and the Red Cross said Monday .
It said 90 per cent of the city of some 530,000 people and its surrounding area had been"damaged or destroyed"."The situation is terrible. The scale of devastation is enormous," the IFRC's Jamie LeSueur was quoted as saying in the statement. In Zimbabwe, Idai swept away homes and destroyed bridges, leaving a trail of destruction that the acting defence minister, Perrance Shiri, said"resembles the aftermath of a full-scale war".
"This is the worst infrastructural damage we have ever had," Zimbabwean Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza said. Two pupils and a worker at a secondary school in the area were among those killed after a landslide sent a boulder crashing into their dormitory. Joshua Sacco, lawmaker for Chimanimani, told AFP by phone, that between"150 to 200 people" are missing.
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