Thousands of people have been affected, power cut off and major bridges flooded in parts of the Manicaland province which borders Mozambique. “The information we have so far is that over 100 people are missing and some of them” may have died, Joshua Sacco, a member of parliament in Chimanimani district, told AFP. “At least 25 houses were swept away following a mudslide at Ngangu township in Chimanimani urban. Local officials in Mozambique said that heavy rains earlier in the week, before the cyclone struck, had already claimed another 66 lives, injured scores and displaced 17,000 people. Heavy rains in neighbouring Malawi this week have affected almost a million people and claimed 56 lives, according to the latest government toll.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2019 08:15 UTC