More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation’s president said.

“It is a real disaster of great extents,” President Filipe Nyusi said. Cyclone Idai could turn out to be the deadliest tempest in ages to hit the ruined southeast African country of 30 million people.

It struck Beira, an Indian Ocean port city of a half-million people, late Thursday and after that moved inland to Zimbabwe and Malawi with solid breezes and heavy rain. Be that as it may, it took days for the extent of the disaster to come into the focus in Mozambique, which has a poor correspondence and transportation organizations and a degenerate and inefficient bureaucracy.

Talking on state Radio Mozambique, Nyusi said that while the official death of life remained at 84, “It creates the impression that we can enroll in excess of 1,000 deaths.” Emergency officials cautioned that while they expect the loss of life to rise significantly, they have no chance to get of knowing whether it will achieve the president’s estimate.

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In excess of 215 people were killed by the tempest in the three countries, incorporating more than 80 in Zimbabwe’s eastern Chimanimani region and more than 50 in Malawi, according to official figures. Hundreds more were accounted for harmed and missing, and about 1,000 homes were wrecked in eastern Zimbabwe alone.

Doctors Without Borders said rivers have broken their banks leaving many houses fully submerged and around 11,000 family units uprooted in Nsanje, in southern Malawi. UN agencies and the Red Cross helped rush emergency food and medicine by helicopter to the stricken countries.

Mount Chiluvo in focal Mozambique was seriously hit by flooding. One inhabitant said he heard a boisterous commotion, similar to a blast, and abruptly observed a waterway of mud moving toward his home.

“I was inside with my youngsters, yet when we looked we saw mud descending the street towards the houses and we fled,” Francisco Carlitos told Lusa, the Portuguese News Agency. The family lost their home and assets however securely achieved higher ground.

The country’s leader, who cut short a visit to neighboring Swaziland throughout the end of the week due to the catastrophe, talked in the wake of flying by helicopter over Beira and two rustic territories, where he detailed far-reaching pulverization.

“The waters of the Pungue and Buzi rivers overflowed, making whole villages disappear and isolating communities, and bodies are floating,” Nyusi said.

The United Nation’s compassionate office said the government provided flood admonitions and said overwhelming downpours were a gauge for the following 24 hours, incorporating into regions previously hit hard by Idai.

The Red Cross said 90 percent of Beira was harmed or destroyed. The cyclone knocked out electricity, shut down the airport and slice off access to the city by road.

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U.N. authorities referred to reports that Beira Central Hospital’s crisis room was overflowed and without power, and that a great part of the structure’s rooftop had crumpled. Doctors Without Borders said it had totally stopped activities in Beira clinic, local health centers and throughout the community.

The devastation in Beira is “massive and horrifying,” said Jamie LeSueur, who drove a Red Cross group that needed to evaluate the damage by helicopter because of the flooded-out roads.

The U.N. likewise cautioned of pulverization outside Beira, specifically of animals and yields.

“As this harm is happening just before the primary reap season, it could exacerbate food insecurity in the region,” the UN helpful office known as OCHA said. Mozambique is a long, tight nation with a 2,400-kilometer (1,500-mile) coastline along the Indian Ocean. It is inclined to cyclones and tropical storms this time of year.

In 2000, Mozambique was hit by severe flooding caused by weeks of heavy rain, a disaster made much worse when a cyclone hit. Approximately 700 people were killed in what was regarded as the worst flooding in 50 years.

Mozambique won independence from Portugal in 1975 and then was plagued by a long-running civil war that ended in 1992. Its economy is dominated by agriculture, and its exports include prawns, cotton, cashews, sugar, coconuts, and tropical hardwood timber.

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More recently it has been exporting aluminum and electric power, and deposits of natural gas were discovered in the country’s north.

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