Tropical Cyclone Freddy is causing more than just a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique – this time a public health scare after the floods it triggered swept several bodies from a cemetery near the capital Maputo.
According to reports monitored here on Monday, bodies from a cemetery on the banks of the Umbeluze river in Boane district near Maputo were swept from the graveyard and into nearby neighbourhoods and farms.
Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which made landfall on February 24, caused rivers to flood, with the water seeping into a nearby cemetery.
The water is said to have lifted bodies, washed and then scattered them on land near the graveyard.
Experts fear that the washed bodies from the graves are putting Mozambicans in the affected areas at risk of contracting water-borne diseases.
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