People in Malawi and Mozambique picking up the pieces after fierce storm swept through at the weekend
“The situation is very dire,” said Guilherme Botelho, emergency project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Malawi. “There are many casualties, either wounded, missing or dead, and the numbers will only increase in the coming days.”Across the country, nearly 59,000 people have been affected and more than 19,000 displaced, with many now sheltering in schools and churches.
John Witman, who is in his 80s, stood in front of what had been his son-in-law’s home. It was now just rocks and gushing water, the house having been swept away. Fourteen-year-old Mayeso Chinthenga said his family’s house was taken by the cascading mud. “We were out looking for firewood when we saw rocks rolling down the mountain so we ran for safety. Some of our neighbours died on the spot,” he said at a nearby school.
The storm has unofficially broke the World Meteorological Organization’s benchmark as the longest-lasting tropical cyclone on record, set in 1994 for a 31-day storm named John. Meteorologists say that cyclones tracking across the entire Indian Ocean are very infrequent – the last occurred in 2000 – and that Freddy’s loopback was even more exceptional.
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