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Natural disasters kill 61 people in Mozambique since October
11:46 CAT | 06 Mar 2018
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Natural disasters have killed 61 people in Mozambique since October, out of a total of 150,000 people affected, the National Institute for the Management of Natural Disasters (INGC) announced yesterday.
Speaking at a press conference, the director of the Prevention and Mitigation at INGC, Ana Cristina, said that the deaths, which occurred in different parts of the country, were caused by heavy rains, floods and lightning.
Cristina said that 7,296 homes were totally destroyed and 14,000 were partially damaged by bad weather.
According to government forecasts, one billion meticais (about EUR 13 million) will be needed to cover all support actions in the current rainy season, but the state has only been able to mobilise 160 million meticais (about two million Euros), Cristina said.
The government faces a deficit of 940 million meticais (EUR 12 million).
“We have launched a solidarity campaign to cover situations that have left families highly vulnerable,” she added.
On Sunday, the INGC began evacuating people surrounded by water along the banks of the Save River in central Mozambique, after floods caused by torrential rain in Zimbabwe.
In Vila Nova Mambone, in the north of Inhambane province in the south of the country, 400 families were evacuated because of the Save flooding.
“There is an alert in place at Vila Nova Mambone,” the INGC’s regional delegate César Tembe said.
Speaking to newspaper Noticias, the administrator of Machanga district, in Mozambique’s central Sofala province, said that 2,533 people were cut off by floodwaters elsewhere along the river and desperately in need of rescue.
Mozambique is cyclically hit by floods during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.
Source: Lusa
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