Much of the area around Beira port has been turned into an inland sea, with survivors clinging to islands of high ground.
By Paul Schemm Paul Schemm Overnight foreign editor based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Email Bio Follow March 20 at 8:01 AM ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Three days of mourning began in Mozambique on Wednesday for the more than 200 people reported killed by a devastating cyclone that smashed into the center of the southern African nation.
Pope Francis expressed his pain Wednesday over the tragedy and said he was praying for those affected. A woman makes her way to a school building being used as an emergency shelter for some 300 local people who are unable to return to their homes following cyclone force winds and heavy rain in the coastal city of Beira, Mozambique, Sunday March 17, 2019. Rescue teams are fanning out in boats and helicopters into the city and surrounding towns to rescue those clinging to rooftops and palm trees above the rising floodwaters.
“WFP is starting food distributions in Dondo today outside Beira,” said Deborah Nguyen, part of the WFP response in the port city. “Communities stranded by floods in Buzi and surroundings are being rescued by helicopters to Beira for now,” she added. She referred to the area across the river from the port where thousands of people are believed to be stranded and which the United Nations has warned risks being submerged.
The European Union said it was releasing $3.9 million in emergency aid, while Britain has pledged $7.9 million.
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