Cyclone makes landfall in flooded Mozambique

Cyclone Favio with sustained winds of 125 miles an hour swept ashore in central Mozambique today.

It dumped heavy rains and new misery on tens of thousands of people already forced from their homes by flooding.

A second storm, Cyclone Gamede, churned in the Indian Ocean north-east of Madagascar and threatened to make landfall in the same area of central Mozambique before dawn tomorrow.

As it moved ashore this morning at Vilankulo south of Beira, Favio destroyed some homes and ripped the roofs off others.

The government had evacuated many of the people in the area, taking them to higher ground further inland.

Many of those who remained scurried to save their possessions from houses destroyed or damaged by the storm’s fury.