80,000 Threatened by Fresh Flooding
From Times Wire Reports
Rescue teams began evacuating 80,000 people threatened by fresh floods in central parts of Mozambique as more water was released from the Cahora Bassa Dam.
Silvano Langa, director of the National Institute for Disaster Management, said rescuers had four to five days before a fresh wave of water hits the towns of Marromeu and Luabo downstream from the dam’s reservoir, which is at full capacity.
The World Food Program said 30,000 people were at risk farther south, where the Save River had burst its banks.
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