By RFIPalled on 29-04-2019Modified on 29-04-2019 at 19:17
Last week's assessment of cyclone Kenneth in the extreme north of Mozambique has left 38 dead, 39 injured and nearly 35,000 homes destroyed or damaged, the Mozambican authorities said on Monday.
Hurricane Kenneth touched the coast of the province on Thursday, April 25 with winds approaching 300 km / h and very heavy rains, just six weeks after the devastating passage to a thousand kilometers further south of Hurricane Idai.
According to the new report released Monday by the Mozambican Institute for Emergency Management (INGC), Kenneth has so far killed 38 people, injured 39 and destroyed or damaged nearly 35,000 homes. The previous assessment reported five deaths in the province of Cabo Delgado, on the border with Tanzania.
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Ponto de situação do ciclone #Kenneth (dados preliminares até ao dia 29 de Abril 2019) #INGC pic.twitter.com/PmGruOz8Xs
After Kenneth passed through, the city of Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado province, and its surroundings were victims Monday of significant floods caused by the persistence of heavy rainfall associated with the cyclone.
Several neighborhoods of the city, which has 400,000 inhabitants, were under water and many roads cut, said journalists AFP. These floods complicate the distribution of emergency assistance, according to the World Food Program (WFP), while more than 30,000 hectares of crops have been destroyed by rising water levels in the region.
Idai had hit mid-March the second largest city Beira (center) and then continued its route Zimbabwe. Idai had killed a thousand people and left hundreds of thousands homeless in both countries.
(With AFP)
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