Cyclone Chido killed at least 120 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country’s disaster management agency said Monday, up 26 from a previous toll.
The cyclone, which devastated the French island territory of Mayotte before hitting the African mainland, also destroyed 110,000 homes in Mozambique, officials said.
After making landfall the storm ravaged the northern province of Cabo Delgado with gusts of around 260 kilometres (160 miles) per hour, pelting it with 250 millimetres (10 inches) of rain in a day.
The region is regularly ravaged by tropical storms and is also wrestling with unrest from a long-running Islamist insurgency.
- Mother throws baby tagged bastard into river
- Stampedes: Obi picks holes in IGP’s directive on palliative distribution
More than 500,000 of the 700,000 Mozambicans affected by the storm – which experts say was made more intense by human-driven climate change – are concentrated in Cabo Delgado.
Join Daily Trust WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You.
