{"id":37539,"date":"2019-03-26T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37539"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:24:09","slug":"mozambique-rescued-cyclone-victims-fear-for-those-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37539","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Rescued cyclone victims fear for those left behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72.9715079917\">\n<p><strong>Beira, Mozambique<\/strong>&#8211; They waited for rescue for days, clinging on to trees and rooftops, after a powerful cyclone tore through Mozambique and triggered flash floods in what the UN has called &#8220;one of the worst weather-related catastrophes in the history of Africa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Many said they survived by drinking boiled water.<\/p>\n<p>When rescue workers arrived in boats and helicopters, most had nothing more than the clothes on their backs, and their feet were swollen from days of waiting in water.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds were taken to the Escola Secundaria Samora Machel in the city of Beira.<\/p>\n<p>Aid agencies are providing survivors with a bucket of drinking water and a large pot of rice, but other basics are still lacking. Some are relieved just to be alive, but said they fear for those left-behind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy that at least some family members have been rescued,&#8221; said Otilla Sacur. &#8220;But most of them are still [in the flooded areas]. That makes me very sad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cyclone Idai, which also hit Zimbabwe and Malawi, killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-africa-cyclone\/death-toll-from-southern-africa-cyclone-floods-exceeds-700-idUSKCN1R40AC\" target=\"_blank\">more than 700 people<\/a> and washed away entire villages in the affected-region.<\/p>\n<p>In Mozambique, thousands are still waiting to be rescued, aid workers said, while the United Nations some 1.85 million people need urgent help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least one million children need urgent assistance and this number may well grow. We fear that whole villages have been washed away in places we have yet to reach,&#8221; Antonio Guterres, the UN chief, told reporters on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beira, Mozambique- They waited for rescue for days, clinging on to trees and rooftops, after a powerful cyclone tore through Mozambique and triggered flash floods in what the UN has called &#8220;one of the worst weather-related catastrophes in the history of Africa&#8221;. Many said they survived by drinking boiled water. When rescue workers arrived in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}