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Zimbabwe: Harare Mayor Calls On Residents in Low-Mendacity Areas to Evacuate Resulting from Incessant Rains

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CITY of Harare (CoH) and the Civil Safety Unit (CPU) have established two evacuation centres following an alert on potential floods within the capital attributable to steady rains.

The camps at Budiriro 2 Major Faculty and Kuwadzana 3 Major Faculty will present shelter to residents in flood-prone low-lying areas.

Harare mayor Jacob Mafume Thursday, inspired residents in low-lying areas to evacuate.

“The CPU has alerted the town to impending floods attributable to incessant rains. These are going to have an effect on low-lying areas particularly Budiriro, Hopley and people who find themselves located in wetlands.

“These floods are severe and we have now already misplaced two lives to the final flood which occurred a number of days in the past and large quantities of property and homes had been destroyed.

“We’ve created two camps with the help of the CPU.

“The camps are in Budiriro 2 Major Faculty and Kuwadzana 3 Major Faculty. We encourage those that reside in susceptible areas to make their means in the direction of these areas.

“There’s meals that has been offered by the CPU and as a metropolis we have now contributed beef by our cattle.

“We’ll monitor the meals state of affairs there and proceed to encourage individuals to maneuver from low-lying areas and to go to those safety centres,” Mafume stated.

Final week, 19 households in Budiriro and Kuwadzana needed to be rescued by the ZRP Sub-Aqua Unit after their homes had been submerged in water after heavy rains.

A six-year-old from Budiriro died after he was allegedly swept away by flood waters.

In Highfields, one other individual was additionally reportedly swept away and died final week.

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