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More displaced by Zim floods
08/01/2008 16:51 - (SA)
Harare - Hundreds more families have lost homes, animals and property in floods in Zimbabwe that have claimed 32 lives as heavy rains pound the country, reports said on Tuesday.
At least 242 families from villages in Middle Sabi district in southern Masvingo province, one of the worst-affected areas, were being sheltered at school buildings on higher ground, the state Herald newspaper reported.
In the same province, a villager in Chivi district was swept away by floodwaters, the paper said, bringing to 32 the number of victims in the flooding since December.
Many of the rivers that rise in Zimbabwe flow into neighbouring Mozambique, whose government has declared a red alert over flooding in several parts of the country.
On Monday the UN announced it was scaling up aid efforts to help around 56 000 people affected by the floods in central Mozambique, which claimed two lives in central Sofala province according to local officials.
In Zimbabwe heavy rains have been falling since early December. At least 600 families in the Zambezi River valley in Mashonaland Central province lost their homes and livestock.
Weather experts say that last December was the wettest in more than a century.
Sapa-dpa
- SAPA
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