By Tuesday afternoon authorities had counted 190 people dead in Malawi.
The unidentified girl was covered in mud up to her head when neighbors found her, said another local resident, Aaron Ntambo.
Freddy, one of the longest-lasting and strongest tropical storms ever recorded, has left a trail of destruction after it circled back to hit the region for a second time over the weekend since first making landfall last month. “We just saw a big swell of water and we ran away. When we returned, all our goods had been swept away and the house collapsed,” Pigoti said.Article contentAlmost 60,000 people have been affected, of which about 19,000 were displaced from their homes, Malawi’s government said.A retired bricklayer from Blantyre who once helped build the leafy hilltop mansion of Malawi’s first president, he is now destitute after his properties were wrecked by the cyclone.
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