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00:00Cyclone Shido slammed into Mozambique with such fury last weekend that its winds tore
00:05sheets of corrugated tin off the house of Bincha Jose Nakira.
00:09When the cyclones came, I thought I was going to die.
00:14It was very scary.
00:15I was surrounded by kids, by children.
00:18The children were crying, screaming.
00:20They were all very scared, and they all felt they were going to die.
00:24Now she needs to rebuild her home.
00:27Residents have started to pick up the pieces after Cyclone Shido left thousands of homes
00:31destroyed and dozens dead when it made landfall in the country's Cabo Delgado province on
00:36Sunday.
00:37The official death toll from Shido in Mozambique rose to 45 on Wednesday, up from 34 a day
00:42earlier, according to government officials.
00:44The storm hit continental Africa after passing through French territory on the island of
00:48Mayotte.