Whole village, police station and government complex at Rusitu in Chimanimani swept away by cyclone floods, many dead, several missing.

RUSITU GOVERNMENT COMPLEX CHIMANIMANI death toll in the Eastern Highlands Cyclone Idai floods has risen dramatically after a whole village, police station and government complex at Rusitu in Chimanimani were swept away by the cyclone floods.

There are currently hundreds of people still missing after Cyclone Idai tore through the southern Africa countries of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, destroying property and killing many people.
Addressing a Press briefing at State House last night, Mnangagwa declared two days of national mourning starting tomorrow in respect of those who perished in the disaster.

“As we now know, we have lost many citizens, with the human toll set to reach several hundreds,” he said.

The Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa while visiting the worst affected areas on Wednesday in Chimanimani and Chipinge said “many who continue to grieve the loss of loved ones, and are living in the hope of recovering their remains”.

‘In Rusitu, I saw with unmitigated disrepair big boulders recklessly strewn on what used to be a resettlement, a banana market and even a police post, where both the serving officer and prisoner were washed away alongside other government structures and private residences. The resettlement was completely washed away and the remains of the occupants unaccounted for to this day,” he said’

Chimanimani district and some parts of Chipinge, along the Mozambique border, are cut off from the rest of Zimbabwe with rescue teams continuously unable to reach some marooned people. More news to follow Sibusiso Ngwenya

PHOTO-A man stands on the edge of a collapsed bridge in Chimanimani, about 400 miles southeast of Harare, Zimbabwe, March 18, 2019, after Cyclone Idai devastated the region. AP

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