More than 2 000 people fled Mozambique Island last week after "confusing information" was issued by the local media on the impeding tsunami, authorities said on Monday.
Bonifácio António, Information Officer at the national disaster management,(INGC) told the weekly O Pais in an article published in the Monday online edition that while an alert was issued by his organisation, misleading information by the local media had resulted in the residents of the island panicking and leaving the island en masse.
He said in future his organisation was considering holding workshops for journalists to train them how they should handle basic information in times of natural disaster alerts.
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INGC would also hold similar workshops where it would prepare the general population in major cities drilling them on evacuation procedures to be followed in times of real disasters.
On September 12, the Mozambican government issued a tsunami alert and ordered people living on or near the Indian Ocean coast to abandon their homes.
More that two million people live along Mozambique's coast which stretches for more than 2 000 kilometres, while hundreds others lives on Mozambican islands. - Sapa
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