Luísa Nhantumbo / LUSA
Floods in Maputo
There are still three people missing and 99 injured. President Daniel Chapo canceled trip to the World Economic Forum.
The total of dead at the time of rains em Mozambique rose to 112, continuing three people missing, in addition to 99 people wounds, according to data from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD).
According to the INGD database, since October 1st there have been affected until now 645,781 peopleequivalent to 122,863 families, with 11,233 houses partially destroyed and 4,883 completely destroyed, worsening the previous balance.
On Friday the Government decreed alert national red.
Of the 80 accommodation centers opened since the start of the rainy season, 69 remain active, with 70,488 people, of the 55,722 who have already had to be removed from the evacuated areas, according to the same INGD data.
56 health units and 44 houses of worship were also affected, in addition to 306 schools, seven bridges, 27 aqueducts, 2,515 kilometers of roads were damaged and 155 electricity poles fell.
The INGD record also points to 165,841 hectares of agricultural area affected, of which 73,695 hectares are considered lost, affecting 111,535 farmersin addition to the death of 38,770 heads of cattleincluding cattle, goats and poultry.
A Embassy of Portugal in Maputo, in “solidarity with the Government and people of Mozambique”, is in contact with “the Mozambican authorities and relevant partners”, to “identify mechanisms to support efforts to respond and mitigate the impacts caused by the floods, both bilaterally and within the European Union”.
Daniel Chapopresident of Mozambique, was going to the World Economic Forum in Davos, but canceled the trip to Switzerland. To be close to those affected.
In the midst of travel, your presidential helicopter ended up rescue 12 people who were on the roof of a passenger transport van in Chókwe. Among those rescued was a toddler, describes the .
