'I thought I was going to die,' Mozambique Chido survivor says

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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.