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Moz torrential rains claim 5
23/01/2007 15:25 - (SA)
Maputo - Torrential rains in central Mozambique have claimed five lives and rendered more than 3 500 homeless since the weekend, says the National Institute for Disaster Management.
Institute director Paulo Zucula said: "Three people died of electrocution in Quelimane and two have drowned in Namacurra district. More than 3 500 people have been housed in makeshift shelters as their homes have been flooded."
He said: "The situation is alarming in Quelimane", adding that almost the entire length of the coastal town in the northern Zambezia province was flooded.
Zucula added: "For the moment there is only cholera, but no other epidemics."
In early 2000, about 1 000 people lost their lives in floods that caused widespread devastation in the southern African nation, which was also struggling to rebuild after a 16-year civil war that ended in 1992.
- AFP
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