Floods cut off key supply route

A river in central Mozambique has overflowed its banks for the third time in a month, flooding a key supply route.

The waters of the Pungwe River submerged a stretch of the road between the towns of Mutua and Tica, about 37 miles west of Beira, capital of the central Sofala province, Radio Mozambique reported yesterday. The road links the port of Beira to Zimbabwe.