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The Associated Press
Monday, January 12, 2009; 7:28 AM MAPUTO, Mozambique -- Authorities in Mozambique say torrential rains
have killed 19 people in the past few days and worse flooding may lie ahead.
Jose Domingos, a disaster management official, says most of the victims
died trying to cross a raging river in the central province of Manica.
He says hundreds have been given shelter in emergency centers and roads
in the area are impassable. Mozambican television showed pictures Monday of people trying to cross
the Mweri river with their belongings and domestic animals. Four more people have been killed and 1,000 displaced in the coastal
region of Inhambane in the past two weeks. Authorities fear that, as the rainy season in the southern African
nation continues, the flooding will worsen.
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