Cyclone Idai deaths could exceed 1,000
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(24 Mar 2019) Local fishermen continued to ferry displaced people from Buzi to the port city of Beira on Saturday, as a second week of efforts got underway to find and help tens of thousands of people after Cyclone Idai devastated a large swath of Mozambique.
On Saturday, children and barefoot women were helped off a fishing boat by aid workers on the rainy shores of Beira.
One of them was Christina Machado, who arrived with her two children and a bandage on her ankle, which she said was cut by a tin roof during the cyclone and just treated on Friday.
"I'm looking for my husband," she said. He had been working in Beira for two months. She didn't know where she would be taken next.
Travelling against the ongoing traffic of displaced people moving towards the shattered city of Beira, now home to crowded camps, Veronica Fatia huddled on a wooden boat on her journey back to Buzi in the hope of finding her mother alive.
Carrying bags of rice and her two-year-old daughter, Fatia stepped carefully off the boat and walked into the remains of Buzi.
More than a week after Cyclone Idai roared in, the muddy floodwaters were still pouring off the river banks, draining what aid workers had called an inland ocean.
She found her mother, Maria Antonio, at a school - the happiness of the reunion tempered with fears for another daughter who had been going to school in Quelimane and has not been heard from since the cyclone hit.
Communications have been badly affected by the cyclone, separating families in the chaos.
"I don't know how she is surviving, if she is even alive," Antonio said.
Throughout the region, emergency air efforts are focuing on spotting stranded people and communities in the hope of dropping aid or plucking those in dire need to safety.
There are signs of life in the inundated landscape, even smoke from some cooking fires.
As waters recede, however, aid workers expect the death toll to rise as bodies are found.
With water and sanitation systems largely destroyed, waterborne diseases are also a growing concern.
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On Saturday, children and barefoot women were helped off a fishing boat by aid workers on the rainy shores of Beira.
One of them was Christina Machado, who arrived with her two children and a bandage on her ankle, which she said was cut by a tin roof during the cyclone and just treated on Friday.
"I'm looking for my husband," she said. He had been working in Beira for two months. She didn't know where she would be taken next.
Travelling against the ongoing traffic of displaced people moving towards the shattered city of Beira, now home to crowded camps, Veronica Fatia huddled on a wooden boat on her journey back to Buzi in the hope of finding her mother alive.
Carrying bags of rice and her two-year-old daughter, Fatia stepped carefully off the boat and walked into the remains of Buzi.
More than a week after Cyclone Idai roared in, the muddy floodwaters were still pouring off the river banks, draining what aid workers had called an inland ocean.
She found her mother, Maria Antonio, at a school - the happiness of the reunion tempered with fears for another daughter who had been going to school in Quelimane and has not been heard from since the cyclone hit.
Communications have been badly affected by the cyclone, separating families in the chaos.
"I don't know how she is surviving, if she is even alive," Antonio said.
Throughout the region, emergency air efforts are focuing on spotting stranded people and communities in the hope of dropping aid or plucking those in dire need to safety.
There are signs of life in the inundated landscape, even smoke from some cooking fires.
As waters recede, however, aid workers expect the death toll to rise as bodies are found.
With water and sanitation systems largely destroyed, waterborne diseases are also a growing concern.
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