Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, killed at least 70 people in Malawi and Mozambique on its return to Southern Africa's mainland, authorities said Monday. In total, the storm has so far killed at least 97 people.
In Malawi, Blantyre city was badly impacted, with regional police spokeswoman Beatrice Mikuwa saying 36 bodies were recovered in the township of Chilobwe"which has been hit the most" with dozens of houses washed away.Richard Duwa, 38, said his sister-in-law's family was swept away by flash floods.
"Unfortunately, we have just recovered one body, a small boy, but the remaining four are not to be seen." National carrier Malawi Airlines said all flights to Blantyre have been canceled until further notice after an inbound plane ran into the bad weather midflight and was forced back to the capital Lilongwe.
In Mozambique, at least three people died in Namacura, a town in the central Zambezia province, according to district head Moura Xavier.
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