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Aid agencies estimate the death toll to be well into the thousands.
As the spectre of starvation and death from cholera and malaria grows, new flood of water is headed for Mozambique down the Limpopo River. Survivors in the already flooded village of Xai-Xai are huddled on rooftops, and they could be swept away when the Limpopo surges further. Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano told reporters at Maputo's airport on Tuesday that the Xai-Xai residents had to be rescued as a matter of the utmost urgency if further loss of life is to be prevented. South Africa now has seven military helicopters working in Mozambique, after two more were sent in on Tuesday. Aid workers say the death toll will continue to climb, especially as people begin dying of flood-borne diseases over the next few weeks.