Thursday 15 January 2015

Mozambique's raging flood splits major highway

A major highway in Mozambique has split after two bridges collapsed as a result of heavy flooding that has killed 25 people and displaces tens of thousands in the country, officials say. 
A boy stands whose family home was washed away by floods in the southern district of Chikwawa in Malawi on Tuesday 13 January 2015 
Parts of the country are also without electricity after torrential rains knocked down 10 pylons, reports say.
Heavy rains have also devastated neighbouring Malawi, where 48 have been killed about 70,000 have been homeless.
The southern African states have been hit by late summer storms.
The bad weather is expected to continue for several days.

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