Hope Fades for Rescuing Missing Cyclone Victims: Malawi CycloneFreddy
Charles Kalemba, commissioner for the Department of Disaster Management Affairs, told reporters that the search and rescue team has ended operations in some districts, including Chiradzulu, where the government used excavators to sift through the muddy rubble.
"At this point ... the work that they have done, even using the sniffing dogs, the chances of them being found are very slim," Kalemba said."But we have a process that would be followed where we would declare the missing [people] to have been passed on." Kalemba said the country has started working on road reconstruction, using military engineers from Malawi and Tanzania.
Speaking during a televised prayer organized by the Evangelical Association of Malawi on Wednesday, President Lazarus Chakwera said Malawians should not lose hope but instead turn to God.
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