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Cyclone Idai survivor: 'We became hopeless'

Nelson is a technician in a truck workshop in Beira, Mozambique. It's one of the areas of southern Africa devastated by Cyclone Idai.

He managed to get back to his wife Shingie in Zimbabwe after taking shelter overnight in a local primary school.

He describes what he saw as he waited for the cyclone to pass.

(Photo: Fallen tree after cyclone in Beira City, Beira Province, Mozambique. Credit: EPA)

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