In pictures: Mozambique's waiting game

Thousands of Mozambique flood victims spent Tuesday sitting in trees, on rooftops and on patches of high ground surrounded by swiftly flowing muddy water, waiting for over-stretched rescuers to pluck them to safety.


A South African helicopter hovers above flood victims.



A family salvages its possessions in the flooded city of Xai-Xai.



A woman waits in waist-deep flood waters for her rescuers.



Rescuers spent the day plucking flood victims from rooftops and tree branches.



A woman is airlifted from a tree with her baby in Chokwe province.



South African rescuers pull a child from a tree in Chibuti.



A civilian helicopter rescues people on a rooftop in Xai-Xai.