🌀 Cyclone Idai death toll at 215, Beira city '90 percent destroyed' | Al Jazeera English

The death toll has risen to at least 215 after Cyclone Idai tore into central Mozambique last week before continuing on to Zimbabwe and Malawi, bringing flash floods and ferocious winds.

At least 126 people were killed in Mozambique and Malawi, according to the Red Cross, and Zimbabwe's information ministry on Monday put the number of dead at 89 in the country.

Most of the deaths in Mozambique happened in the central port city of Beira, 90 percent of which was destroyed, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

A large dam burst on Sunday in the city, cutting off the last road to the city of about 530,000 people, the IFRC said in a statement.


Euloge Ishimwe, the Africa region communications manager for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, talks to Al Jazeera about the disastrous cyclone.

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