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Winds of up to 170 kph and flooding swept across south eastern Africa, including, affecting more than 2.6 million people, United Nations officials said on Tuesday.

The organisation said large areas to the west of the port city of Beira were severely flooded, and in places close to the Buzi and Pungwe rivers flood waters are metres deep, completely submerging homes, telephone poles and trees. The cyclone hit land near Beira on Thursday and moved inland throughout the weekend, leaving heavy rains in its trail on Tuesday. More rural areas remained inaccessible.

“It was pretty terrifying during the storm, extremely noisy, frightening and you can hear the flying debris outside,” Ellul said. “It felt like the windows were going to break, like the storm was going to come into the room.”

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Death toll in Mozambique cyclone, floods could surpass 1000 - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.The cyclone has also killed 98 people and more than 200 are missing in Zimbabwe, the government said, while the death toll in Malawi from heavy rains and flooding stood at 56 as of last week. Sad indeed sorry for the loss of life never trust a mozambican So sorry Mozambique. Sometimes nature can be so cruel.
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