BLANTYRE: The death toll from Cyclone Freddy after it lashed Malawi upon returning to southern Africa‘s mainland has risen to 326, the country’s president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across the region to over 400 since February.
“As of yesterday, the death toll from this disaster has risen from 225 to 326, the number of people displaced has more than doubled to 183,159,” Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera said in the devastated southern region near Blantyre.
“As of yesterday, the death toll from this disaster has risen from 225 to 326, the number of people displaced has more than doubled to 183,159,” Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera said in the devastated southern region near Blantyre.