Food ferried to flood victims

Beira - Portuguese navy boats joined South African helicopters yesterday in ferrying food and medicine to Mozambicans stranded…

Beira - Portuguese navy boats joined South African helicopters yesterday in ferrying food and medicine to Mozambicans stranded by slowly rising floodwaters and packed into overcrowded refugee camps.

A reporter on one South African helicopter ferrying food to the northern reaches of the Zambezi River said 618 families had been found on two islands. A South African Air Force officer said four helicopters would lift the families to higher ground today.