Cyclone Gombe devastates Island of Mozambique – RM | Photos

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Cyclone Gombe devastates Island of Mozambique – RM | Photos

1:32 CAT | 15 Mar 2022

Photo: Governo do Distrito da Ilha de Moçambique

The district of Ilha de Moçambique has been devastated by Cyclone Gombe. One hundred classrooms, 63 of them built with local materials and 37 conventional, have been totally destroyed, affecting around 12,900 students from Grades 1 to 12.

Ilha de Moçambique administrator Momade Ali on Monday morning also reported that five health centres had been damaged, including the one in the island city, the reference health facility in the district.

Momade Ali said that all he had was preliminary data, as damage surveillance was ongoing in the communities, still hampered by floods and the severing of some roads.

Figures available on Monday indicated that Tropical Cyclone Gombe had caused the death of six people in the district. Eleven accommodation centres had been opened, to accommodate an estimated 6,600 people affected by the cyclone.

Families in transitional accommodation centres were being assisted with food products, shelters and hygiene and cleaning kits, Momade Ali said, adding that the main challenge at the moment related to areas that were still flooded.

This Sunday, 300 families besieged in a community were rescued.

The district had been deprived of electricity since last Thursday. As a result, water is being supplied by tanker trucks.

Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane, working yesterday in Nampula province, visited areas affected by bad weather in Mogincual and Monapo districts and expressed the government’s solidarity with the affected families. Yesterday afternoon, the prime minister directed the meeting of the Emergency Operating Committee.