Mozambique receive aid from int'l community

(MENAFN) The number of killed people from Cyclone Idai in heavily struck central Mozambique has increased to 446 on Sunday while humanitarian relief from the international community is flowing into the African country.

"Yesterday we had 417 dead bodies, and today the toll rose to 446 deaths," Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development Celso Correia on Sunday informed reporters from the emergency operations center at Beira in the coastal province of Sofala, where the cyclone caused landslides.

It is hard to get information from isolated regions, he added, while the affected people, including the displaced and the stranded, are estimated at over 531,460.

Over 109,630 people have been provided with impermanent shelters. Road traffic has been returned in some regions, including on the No. 6 national road on Saturday to ease the access of assistance, the minister affirmed.

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