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More than 60 bodies recovered after Storm Freddy hits Malawi
BBC reported that more than 60 bodies have been recovered in Malawi’s main commercial hub of Blantyre after Tropical Storm Freddy hit southern Africa for the second time in a month.
Strong winds and rains continue to cause severe destruction.
“We have rivers overflowing, we have people being carried away by running waters, we have buildings collapsing,” a police spokesman has said. Relentless rain and strong winds have hampered overstretched emergency teams in the country’s southern and central regions, which are worst affected, he added.
Country Director of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that victims taken to a hospital in Blantyre had injuries caused by falling trees, landslides and flash floods.
Freddy is the strongest tropical cyclone on record and could also be the long-lasting one, according to the World Meteorological Organization. On Sunday the storm struck Mozambique as a cyclone – for the second time in less than a month after battering the island nation of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, causing severe destruction.
It has been difficult to determine the extent of the damage caused in Mozambique and the number of deaths as power supply and phone signals were cut off in some parts of the affected areas.