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Death toll in Zimbabwe, Mozambique flooding hits at least 33
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 01 - 2008


Four more people have drowned in
Zimbabwe, bringing to 31 the numbers killed in flooding caused by a
month of heavy rains that have also claimed two lives in neighbouring
Mozambique, according to various reports Friday, according to dpa.
In Zimbabwe, three people travelling in an ox-drawn cart were
swept away by floodwaters in the area in northern Mashonaland West
province, the state-run paper reported.
The breakdown of communications with flood-hit areas meant that
the drownings, which occurred last week, were reported Friday for the
first time.
Elsewhere, in Seke, south of Harare, a man drowned Tuesday while
trying to herd his cattle through a swollen stream.
The deaths bring to 31 the numbers killed by flooding in low-lying
areas of the north and south provoked by the heaviest rains in
December in around a century.
Critical food shortages caused by political mismanagement and
drought that have left around 4 million in need of food aid have been
exacerbated as floodwaters swept away crops and livestock.
The situation in Zimbabwe is also having a knock-on effect in
flood-prone neighbouring Mozambique.
Two people died in central Sofala province after the Pungue and
Buzi rivers, which have their source in Zimbabwe, burst their banks,
the district administrator Paulo Majacunene told Deutsche Presse-
Agentur dpa.
The Save river, which also rises in Zimbabwe and flows through
Sofala and Inhambane provinces, also flooded, leaving over 1,000
people stranded, according to government officials.
Rescue workers in motorboats were trying to reach people who
sought refuge in trees and on rooftops.
Impoverished rural dwellers in Mozambique are the worst hit by
flooding during the summer rainy season, which killed some 700 people
and displaced 500,000 in 2000 and 2001.


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