By Tom Gibb and Frank Phiri BLANTYRE (Reuters) -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 next thing she knew, she woke up in hospital, her head wrapped in bandages and her neck in a brace. I saw a lot of water and some people being washed away. Then I do not know what happened. I do not know who brought me here, the 35-year-old said from a bed in Queen Elizabeth hospital in the city of Blantyre. It is not known whether any of her family members survived, a nurse told Reuters. Tropical Cyclone Freddy has killed more than 400 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar since it first made landfall in Africa in late February and circled back to hit the region for a second time over the weekend. 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 n
BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Residents of Blantyre s Chilobwe township, one of the areas worst-hit by tropical cyclone Freddy, were woken in the early hours by the roaring sound of mud and water as Malawi was battered by the storm taking a second shot at southern Africa. By Tuesday afternoon authorities had counted 190 people dead in Malawi, with hundreds more injured and missing. The official death toll in neighbouring Mozambique stood at 20. Many of the dead were killed by mudslides in hilly Blantyre, Malawi s second biggest city. Torrential rain swept away thousands of homes and uprooted trees, leaving residents staring in disbelief at the huge ravines in the roads and having to clamber across makeshift bridges as the rain continued. Bodies were still being brought out from the devastation. Some residents had lucky escapes. Local resident Robert Campbell opened his door when he heard a child screaming for help, and mud rushed in. The girl was trapped in the mud at the edge of the torrent wh
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