Nearly 900 also injured as tropical storm damages houses, schools, health centers, according to authorities - Anadolu Ajansı

A devastating tropical cyclone has struck Mozambique, leaving at least 94 people dead and 768 others injured.

Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfall in the east African country last week, local authorities have said. The country's National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management (INGD) said 768 people were injured and more than 622,000 people affected by the natural disaster in some capacity.

The swirling wind and rain hit an area where a yearslong insurgency had already forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.

Mozambique's death toll from Cyclone Chido has risen to 94, news agency AFP said on Sunday, citing the country's disaster management agency. The cyclone had made landfall in northern Mozambique a week ago and Mozambique's institute for natural disasters on Thursday had given the death toll at 73.

Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people, injured 768 people and more than 622,000 people affected by the natural disaster in the eastern part of Mozambique.