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The National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) started evacuating families living in high-risk areas along the Save River yesterday because of the threat of flooding following heavy rain in Zimbabwe.
Notícias reports that at 7:00 a.m. the river at Vila Franca de Save was at flowing at a depth of 6.02 metres, while the alert level is 5.50 metres.
In Nova Mambone village, more than 400 families living in the neighbourhoods of Mussassa and Mussanga were expected to have left their homes by yesterday afternoon.
INGC regional delegate César Tembe said that accommodation in safe locations for those displaced had been set up. Tents were also set up at the Mahave Resettlement Centre, along with a pavilion at Doane High School which can accommodate more than 200 people.
“The flood threat alert is current for in the village of Nova Mambone. The district-level Emergency Operations Centre (COE) has been strengthened with material and human resources for relief and victim assistance operations, because the Save River could overflow at any time and do great damage,” Tembe said.
To supply relief operations, the INGC has already positioned six motorboats, ten tents with a capacity of ten people each, 100 tarpaulins for six people each, 150 mats, 500 litres of fuel, plastic rolls, shelter kits and more than 15 tons of diverse products.
Tembe said that COE teams were on the ground raising awareness in local communities and urging them to get their belongings out of the area.
According to the local district administrator Fernando Samuel, 21 families at risk In Machaze, Manica province, have been removed from affected localities.
Downstream in the Machanga district of Sofala province, administrator Tomé José told Notícias in Beira, that the region was causing worries, because the Save River was continuing to receive a lot of water because of heavy rainfall upstream.
It is thought that 2,533 people in Javane, Machanga, are cut off from the district’s headquarters village, and some 200 hectares of crops were already flooded in the locality.
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