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Nampula: Cyclone Dikeledi Kills 11, Destroys 20,000 Homes

Nampula: Cyclone Dikeledi Kills 11, Destroys 20,000 Homes

At least 11 people died, and almost 20,000 houses were destroyed after tropical cyclone Dikeledi hit Nampula province, northern Mozambique, according to the latest official figures.

According to a report by the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management (INGD), with preliminary data up to 18:00 on 18 January, the cyclone affected 249,813 people, a total of 49,412 families, with 27,470 houses partially destroyed and 19,751 destroyed, as well as 95 flooded houses and 44 affected health facilities.

Of the 11 deaths recorded following the cyclone’s passage through Nampula province, three were in Memba district and another three in Angoche, with 34 injured.

There are currently 2,316 displaced people in three accommodation centres in the province.

The INGD report also pointed to 129 people affected by the cyclone, namely 371 classrooms and consequently 807 teachers, 67 kilometres of road, 115 damaged boats and 2,278 fallen medium voltage poles.

Tropical cyclone Dikeledi, the second to hit northern Mozambique in the space of a month, formed on 31 December in the south-western Indian Ocean basin and hit the mainland on 13 January over the Mossuril district in Nampula province at category 3, with winds of up to 195 kilometres per hour and heavy rainfall of over 150 millimetres in 24 hours.

The previous one, intense tropical cyclone Chido, level 3 (on a scale of 1 to 5), hit the coastal area of northern Mozambique in the early hours of 14 December, then weakened to a severe tropical storm and continued to batter the provinces of northern Mozambique in the following days with “very heavy rainfall of over 250 mm [millimetres]/24 hours, accompanied by thunderstorms and winds with very strong gusts”, according to previous information from the National Emergency Operations Centre.

Recently updated figures from the Mozambican authorities show that at least 120 people died and another 868 were injured during the passage of Cyclone Chido in northern and central Mozambique.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, from October to April.

Lusa

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