At Least 11 Dead So Far As Kenneth Hits Mozambique; Flooding Impact Still Unclear, But Rains Heavy
Mozambique residents battled heavy rains Saturday as they continued the slow recovery process after Tropical Cyclone Kenneth slammed into the southern African nation, destroying nearly all the homes on a tourist island and killing at least five people. The powerful storm made landfall early Thursday at the northern end of Mozambique's Quirimbas National Park, north of the city of Pemba, home to some 200,000 people. The area where it made landfall in a "sparsely populated apart from a number of villages with no experience of a storm of this magnitude," noted Wunderground meteorologist Bob Henson.
During the storm, five people were killed in Mozambique, including a woman struck by a falling tree in Pemba and another in hard-hit Macomia district. Another person was killed, Mozambique's disaster authorities said, but details were were not immediately given, the Associated Press reports.
Two others were killed on Ibo, a tourist island located north of Pemba in Quirimbas National Park and home to about 6,000 people, where 90 percent of homes were "flattened," Antonio Beleza, spokesman for Mozambique's emergency situation institute (INGC) said, according to Agence France-Press.
The latest fatality in Mozambique brings the death toll from the tropical cyclone to eight. Three others were killed on the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Comoros on Wednesday, local authorities said.
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