Cyclone: Rescuers Hope To Reach More Victims As Roads Reopen In Mozambique - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 25, 2019
Rescuerssaid they would reach hundreds of people on Monday still stranded more than aweek after a powerful cyclone struck Mozambique and swathes of southeastAfrica, as roads started to reopen.
CycloneIdai lashed Mozambique’s port city of Beira with winds of up to 170 kilometer perhour around midnight on March 14, then moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi,flattening buildings and killing at least 657 people across the threecountries.
Correiasaid the number of people in makeshift camps had risen by 18,000 to 128,000since Sunday, most of them in the Beira area.
Thecyclone and the heavy rains that followed hampered aid efforts and blockeddeliveries of food and other essentials from Beira, which is an importantgateway to landlocked countries in the region.
Thewater covering vast tracts of land west of the port has been receding, but thesize of the disaster zone makes getting aid to the most needy difficult.