19 killed, Beira city shut off as tropical cyclone slams Mozambique.
Updated March 15, 2019
Most of the deaths occurred in Beira, a port hub and capital of Sofala province — a city which has virtually been cut off after power lines crashed, the airport was shut and roads swamped by flooding.“The hardest moment was overnight and this morning,” provincial governor Alberto Mondlane told state radio referring to the time the cyclone barreled through the province.
Another official, Pedro Armando Alberto Virgula, in Chinde north of Beira, said a hospital, police station and seven schools there lost their roofs and several houses were destroyed. Local officials said that this week’s heavy rains had already claimed 66 lives, injured 111 people and displaced 17,000 people.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had warned that the storm could pack winds of up to 190 kilometres per hour .At least 126 people were killed by the downpour that has struck parts of Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa over the past week, officials said.
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