Many houses damaged and bridges washed away in parts of Zimbabwe's Manicaland province which borders Mozambique, with 40 people also injured as tropical cyclone Idai lashes the region
his picture taken on March 15, 2019 shows a vehicule as rain, which is believed to be the beginning of Tropical cyclone Idai coming from central Mozambique, falls in the flooded district of Chikwawa, southern Malawi.
Many houses have been damaged and bridges washed away in parts of the Manicaland province which borders Mozambique. "The information we have so far is that over 100 people are missing and some of them" may have died, Joshua Sacco, a member of parliament in Chimanimani district, told AFP. Heavy downpours in neighbouring Malawi this week have affected almost a million people and claimed 56 lives there, according to the latest governmen t toll.
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