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Rescuers struggle to reach Mozambique cyclone victims

Maria Mendosa, Assan Madal and their children are among those without shelter in the village of Nacate, south of Macomia. [AFP]

Thousands of people in remote areas of storm-lashed Mozambique were homeless Saturday and bracing for imminent flooding, food and water shortages as Cyclone Kenneth flattened entire villages, leaving rescuers struggling to reach them.

Kenneth, which has killed five people, struck northern Mozambique late Thursday, barely a month after the country was hit by one of the worst storms in its history, which claimed hundreds of lives.

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