Over 1000 feared dead after Cyclone Idai slams into Mozambique

Johannesburg: More than 1000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation's president said.

An aerial view of the flooding in Beira, Mozambique.
The Red Cross says that as much as 90 per cent of
Mozambique's central port city of Beira has been
damaged or destroyed by tropical Cyclone Idai. 

"It is a real disaster of great proportions," President Filipe Nyusi said.

Cyclone Idai could prove to be the deadliest storm in generations to hit the impoverished southeast African country of 30 million people.

Read the story from The Age by Macdonald Dzjrutwe and Manuel Mucari - “Over 1000 feared dead after Cyclone Idai slams into Mozambique.”