The city and surrounding areas have no power and nearly all communication lines have been destroyed. Beira’s main hospital has been badly damaged. The cities of Dondo and Chimoio are also badly affected.
Beira could face a “serious fuel shortage” in the coming days, WFP said, and its power grid is expected to be non-functional through the end of the month.
In Zimbabwe the death toll rose to 98, the government said. The mountain town of Chimanimani was badly hit. Several roads leading into the town were cut off, with the only access by helicopter. Residents expected the death toll to rise.
“We did over 38 burials this morning,” Absolom Makanga, a Salvation Army divisional commander, told the AP. “It is difficult. We have to walk long distances because the roads are cut off but also because sometimes the graves are then washed away.”
Luckmore Rusero carried a small bag with his remaining possessions. His wife carried their one-year-old child while their 11-year-old son struggled to keep pace as they joined many others in seeking refuge.
Wandering through forests with no roads
“Thank God we survived. There are no roads, no transport, so we have been walking for more than 20 kilometres now through the forests and the mountains,” Rusero said.
Some escaped with nothing but their lives.
“I fled naked,” Tecla Chagwiza said. “I only received clothes in the morning from well-wishers who are also helping me with food.” She said her family’s home was destroyed and three neighbours were dead. Others were missing.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in the area on Tuesday, saying a number of countries including the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Angola were offering aid.
Malawi’s government has confirmed 56 deaths, three missing and 577 injured in the severe flooding. Rivers have burst their banks, leaving many houses submerged and around 11,000 households displaced in the southern district of Nsanje.
Neighbouring Tanzania’s military airlifted some 215 tonnes of emergency food and medicine to the three countries.
With files from Reuters
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