Kenneth came to the country on Friday as a category three hurricane, but has since been downgraded to a tropical low pressure. So far, the storm destroyed 3.300 home and forced 18.000 people to take shelter in emergency accommodation.
” It looks as if the island has been bombed. It is biblical, ” says a hotel owner on the tourist island of Ibo, where 90 per cent of the houses levelled with the ground.
A variety of aid workers have arrived in the country. Floods, landslides and widespread power outages have already been reported, and there is a fear of more extensive flooding in the coming days.
still from the cyclone Idai, who on the night between the 14 and 15 march caused severe flooding which swept away houses, roads and bridges. Including the figures from the grannlanden Zimbabwe and Malawi died over a thousand people in the storm.
