Death toll jumps to 38 after Mozambique’s latest cyclone

29 April 2019, 4:30 pm

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The death toll from Cyclone Kenneth in northern Mozambique jumps to 38, the government announces, as flooding and pounding rains hampered efforts to deliver aid to badly hit communities several days after the storm.

An estimated 160,000 people were at risk from the second powerful cyclone to hit the southern African nation in just six weeks, officials said. It was the first time in recorded history that two cyclones had targeted Mozambique in a single season.

Residents push a car through the floods in Mazive, southern Mozambique, on April 28, 2019. (Emidio Josine / AFP)

Just as most of the more than 600 deaths from last month’s Cyclone Idai were caused by flooding in the days that followed, heavy rains in the wake of Kenneth are raising fears of a similar scenario.

The storm made landfall on Thursday with the force of a Category 4 hurricane.

— AP