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Maputo \u2014 At least 18 people have lost their lives in the second wave of flooding in Mozambique, according to the country’s relief agency, the National Disaster Risk Management Institute (INGD).<\/p>\n
According to INGD chairperson Luisa Meque, speaking to reporters, “The deaths that have occurred were due to drowning’.<\/p>\n
The first wave of floods occurred in January, when much of southern and central Mozambique was inundated. Major cities, such as Xai-Xai and Chokwe, both in Gaza province, were flooded.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Maputo \u2014 At least 18 people have lost their lives in the second wave of flooding in Mozambique, according to the country’s relief agency, the National Disaster Risk Management Institute (INGD). According to INGD chairperson Luisa Meque, speaking to reporters, “The deaths that have occurred were due to drowning’. The first wave of floods occurred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621903:5e4e14d7a4f9d3dc69fd9d57990999cb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8096,6878,4704,682,257,254,8942],"class_list":["post-228319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-floods","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wave"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621903:5e4e14d7a4f9d3dc69fd9d57990999cb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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