CNN News: “非洲臺風”發(fā)飆!莫桑比克等國洪水泛濫多人死亡

“非洲臺風”發(fā)飆!莫桑比克等國洪水泛濫多人死亡

First, there was severe flooding. The nations of Malawi and Mozambique saw one and a half million people affected by heavy rains. Then, a week later on March 14th, Cyclone Idai made landfall in coastal Mozambique and ripped its way inland through Malawi and Zimbabwe.

首先，是洪水。馬拉維和莫桑比克有150萬人受到暴雨影響。一周后，3月14日，颶風“艾代”在莫桑比克沿海登陸，并通過馬拉維和津巴布韋向內陸移動。

The destruction was so extensive that some areas were cut off and we’re just getting details about it now. In the Central Mozambican city of Beira, the International Federation of Red Cross called the damage massive and horrifying. It says it looks like 90 percent of the area has been completely destroyed. Roads and communication lines are cut and rescuers can’t even get to some places. Bridges were swept away in parts of Zimbabwe. And across the region, officials don’t know yet how many lives were lost.

這次造成的破壞非常嚴重，一些地區(qū)被切斷了聯系，我們現在剛剛得到詳細信息。在莫桑比克中部城市貝拉，國際紅十字會稱損失巨大，令人震驚。該組織表示，該地區(qū)90%的地區(qū)似乎已經完全被摧毀。道路和通訊線路被切斷，救援人員甚至無法到達一些地方。津巴布韋部分地區(qū)的橋梁被沖毀。地區(qū)的官員還不知道有多少人喪生。

The ICRC says more than 150 people are thought to have been killed in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, but it says that number could go up as rescue teams make their way through. The president of Mozambique says, with rivers having broken their banks and entire villages having been wiped out, Cyclone Idai could have killed more than a thousand people in his country alone. He called the situation a large scale humanitarian disaster.

國際紅十字會說，在莫桑比克、馬拉維和津巴布韋估計有150多人喪生，但是隨著救援隊伍進入災區(qū)，死亡人數可能還會上升。莫桑比克的總統(tǒng)表示，由于河流決堤，整個村莊被夷為平地，僅在莫桑比克，颶風“艾代”就可能造成一千多人死亡。他稱這是一場大規(guī)模的人道主義災難。