Death toll jumps as aid workers fight clock to rescue more African cyclone victims
BEIRA, Mozambique - Rescue workers plucked more survivors to safety from trees and roofs on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered devastating floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
Correia told a news conference that around 15,000 people, many of them very ill, still needed to be rescued. “Our biggest fight is against the clock,” he said, adding that 3,000 had been rescued so far. Survivors of Cyclone Idai, arrive to an evacuation centre in Beira, Mozambique, March 21, 2019. Denis Onyodi/Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
Mozambique’s National Disasters Management Institute said some 358,000 hectares of crops had been destroyed. Thirty-nine hospitals had been damaged, it said. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it was sending two emergency units to Beira that would provide drinking water for up to 15,000 people and sanitation facilities for 20,000, as well as shelter kits.
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