Death toll from Cyclone Idai surpasses 500 in southern Africa

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Death toll from Cyclone Idai surpasses 500 in southern Africa

Associated Press Published 5:19 p.m. ET March 21, 2019 | Updated 5:21 p.m. ET March 21, 2019

BEIRA, Mozambique – A week after Cyclone Idai lashed southern Africa, flooding still raged Thursday as torrential rains caused a dam to overflow in Zimbabwe, threatening riverside populations.

The confirmed death toll in Zimbabwe, neighboring Mozambique and Malawi surpassed 500, with hundreds more feared dead in towns and villages that were completely submerged.

Aid agencies and several governments continued to step up their deployments, with helicopters in short supply for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the cyclone.

Spokesman Herve Verhoosel of the World Food Program told reporters in Geneva of the “alarming news” that the Marowanyati dam in Zimbabwe was hit by heavy rains overnight, putting populations in the region at risk.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/21/cyclone-idai-death-toll-surpasses-500-southern-africa/3238877002/

[BigmanPigman]

1. And two more are going to hit Australia.

Is this "normal" or the "new normal"?

[nitpicker]

2. And there will be the aftermath deaths

Just like Maria.