'The water kept rising': How Mozambicans were caught in path of deadly cyclone

FILE PHOTO: People stand on the banks where the bridge was washed away, in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, near the village of John Segredo, Mozambique March 24, 2019. Picture taken March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo

BUZI/GUARA GUARA, Mozambique (Reuters) - For two days before Cyclone Idai hit, a government official drove down the bumpy roads of Buzi in central Mozambique, warning people through a megaphone that a big storm was coming.

He told them to find a place to shelter, but many people in the once bustling estuary town did not know where to go.