At least three people were killed and 80 injured in the tourist resort of Vilanculos after a tropical cyclone slammed into the southern coast of Mozambique, the National Emergency Operations Centre said today. According to DPA news agency, Salvador Domingos of the centre was speaking hours after the category-four cyclone accompanied by winds of up to 200 kilometres an hour and driving rain made landfall in the southern Inhambane province. Early estimates showed around 95 per cent of houses in the town of 120,000 residents had been destroyed and around 40,000 left homeless, Walburga Greiner, regional coordinator of German Agro Action (WAA) told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The storm was moving Friday north over the country. It was not clear whether it would directly hit the flood-afflicted Zambezi river valley, where weeks of flooding have already claimed around 29 lives and forced around 120,000 people into emergency accommodation. The meteorological service of Mozambique was announcing the approach of a second cyclone over the weekend.
