But on Sunday night, the vast rubbish dump that towers over their informal neighbourhood gave way, sending mounds of trash crashing into the valley, demolishing five houses and pushing another metres downhill, still intact.
It took a Brazilian rescue group, initially deployed after Cyclone Idai devastated Mozambique six weeks earlier and now responding to the aftermath of Kenneth, to extract the four bodies.The team was led by captain Kleber Castro who confirmed to AFP that four corpses were recovered, “unfortunately”. Young men, one in white Wellington boots, stood high up on the recently dislodged mound, sifting through the black pile.
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Mozambique community shattered by trash delugeThe people of Chibuabuar, an informal settlement of modest wooden homes perched on a hillside between a highway and the coast of Pemba in north Mozambique, thought they had escaped the worst of Cyclone Kenneth.
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