President Filipe Nyusi fears the death toll could rise to 1,000 in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai he said in a nationwide address.
“For the moment we have registered 84 deaths officially, but when we flew over the area … this morning to understand what’s going on, everything indicates that we could register more than 1,000 deaths,” he said.
So far the total death toll has risen to at least 215 after the storm tore into central Mozambique last week before continuing on to Zimbabwe and Malawi, bringing flash floods and ferocious winds.
At least 126 people were killed in Mozambique and Malawi, according to the Red Cross, and Zimbabwe’s information ministry on Monday put the number of dead at 89 in the country.
Most of the deaths in Mozambique happened in the central port city of Beira, 90 percent of which was destroyed, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
A large dam burst on Sunday in the city, cutting off the last road to the city of about 530,000 people, the IFRC said in a statement.
“The scale of damage caused by Cyclone Idai that hit the Mozambican city of Beira is massive and horrifying,” it said.
Hundreds are missing and more than 1.5 million people have been affected across the three countries by widespread destruction and flooding.
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