The cessation of heavy rain has allowed communities to hold burial ceremonies after cyclone Freddy struck the African coast twice, breaking the unofficial record as the world's longest tropical storm.
Rains stopped for the first time in five days, allowing more bodies to be found.The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche this week when Tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi.
The storm has now dissipated, but heavy rains are expected to continue in parts of Malawi and will likely cause more floods around lakeshore areas, the ministry of natural resources and climate change said in a statement. Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera visited Queen Elizabeth hospital on Thursday and prayed with flood victims. The storm injured at least 700 people in Malawi at the last count.Deadly floods hit Turkish provinces already devastated by earthquakes
While electricity was starting to come back in Malawi on Thursday, many places affected by the storm still had no running water, including in Blantyre, the second-biggest city.
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