POWERFUL hailstorm and heavy winds swept across Magamba
Training Centre on Monday causing a trail of destruction that saw property
worth $21 000 being destroyed.
The hailstorm also ravaged tobacco crops worth over $US6
000 and ruptured roofs at three boys’ hostels, administration offices and
tobacco barns.
The centre’s accountant Mr Amos Kazambara, said the
hailstorm affected more than 100 students whose hostels and classroom roofs
were blown off.
“More than 100 students were left in the open after their
three hostels were ravaged by the hailstorm. We are still assessing to
establish the exact level of damage. We are saddened by the loss of property.
Fortunately no one was injured during the process,” he said.
When The Manica Post visited the scene on Wednesday, it was
noted that three workshop buildings as well as administration offices ceilings
were destroyed.
“The situation is very bad at the campus where three
administration offices are left with cracks, three workshop buildings which
include a welding workshop, building workshop, two classrooms and hostels had
their roofs blown-off during the heavy hailstorm,” said Mr Kazambara.
About 120 asbestos sheets were blown off from the
buildings’ rooftops. Last November, a hailstorm also ravaged the green house and
two classrooms at the institution.
He indicated that the hailstorm damaged two hectors of
tobacco crops valued at US$6 000 as well as the tobacco barn roofs. It also
uprooted trees at the campus as well as two electric poles which fell resulting
in power cut at the campus.
“Quantification of the actual magnitude of damage caused by
the hailstorm is underway,” he added.
Mr Kazambara said while the rainstorm was yet to cause
human casualties in the area, students should exercise extreme caution since
the rain storms are likely to recur. Manica Post
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