Mozambique and Malawi were on Monday counting the cost of Tropical Storm Freddy, which ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend, leaving a trail of destruction and killing at least 17 people.
The injuries were from falling trees, landslides and flash floods, she said. "A lot of are mud houses with tin roofs, so the roofs fall on people's heads."
Police spokesperson Peter Kalaya told Reuters that rescue teams had been looking for people in Chilobwe and Ndirande, two of the worst-affected townships in the country's second-largest city Blantyre, where it was still raining on Monday and many residents were without power.At least six people died in Mozambique's Quelimane, which was struck hard by the storm, authorities told the public broadcaster on Monday."The situation is critical in Zambezia province.
Guy Taylor, chief of advocacy, communications and partnerships for U.N. children's agency UNICEF in Mozambique, told Reuters from Quelimane that humanitarian agencies there did not have the capacity to deal with a disaster of this size. The wind had died down on Monday but there was still a lot of flooding that had destroyed crops and created a risk of waterborne diseases, he said.Malawi has been battling, and U.N. agencies have warned the situation could now get worse.
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