Cyclone Idai: Hundreds feared dead as tropical storm batters Zimbabwe and Mozambique
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy At least 157 people have been killed by a cyclone that has flooded land and destroyed roads across Zimbabwe and Mozambique, as officials admit the death toll could be significantly higher. Mozambique’s state news agency said Beira’s death toll is 68, and according to television channel TVM 84 people have died across the country. Zimbabwe has been suffering from a severe, crop-wilting drought, and a United Nations humanitarian agency has said 5.3 million of the country’s 15 million people will need food aid. The storm is the worst that Zimbabwe has had since Cyclone Eline in 2000, which destroyed land across eastern and southern Zimbabwe, and affected Mozambique at a time when it had been hit by its worst floods in three decades, killing 350 people and making 650,000 people homeless.