Floods kill 71 in Mozambique

About 80,000 people have been affected by floods in Mozambique which have killed at least 71 people.

The death toll from flooding in parts of Mozambique has risen to 71.

"From the data collected up to last night (Sunday), the provisional toll of victims has risen to 71 since January 12," National Institute of Disaster Management spokeswoman Rita Almeida said.

Most of those killed were from Zambezia province in the centre of the southern African country.

"About 80,000 people have been affected by the floods in the centre and north of the country, according to information we have collected until now," she said.

Of those, 30,000 people are being accommodated in 43 shelters.

Almeida said emergency services remained on high alert, with more rain expected in the coming week.

Meteorologist Jose Savanguani said the coming week would see less rain in the centre of the country, "but moderate to heavy rains will continue in the north."

Across the border in Malawi, 176 people have been killed and 200,000 displaced by floods in what President Peter Mutharika has termed a "national tragedy".

Mozambique's deadliest floods were in 2000 when an estimated 800 people were killed.


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