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Malawi: More bodies have been recovered in Malawi hit by Cyclone Freddy, raising the death toll to at least 438, the country’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs said. The cumulative number of injured has reached 918, with another 282 reported missing, Xinhua news agency quoted Charles Kalemba, commissioner of the Department of Disaster Management Affairs, as saying on Saturday.
About 3,45,183 people (or 79,602 families) have been displaced and 505 camps have been set up to accommodate them. The commissioner said his department, humanitarian partners and councils are continuing to provide relief assistance to affected and displaced families cross society and community with search and rescue operations led by the Malawi Defense Force, Malawi Police Service, Marine Department, Malawi Red .
He said the Malawi Police Service deployed sniffer dogs for search and rescue and recovered nine bodies in Chilobwe town. The commissioner said that foreign missions, governments, local and international organisations, companies and individuals of good will are extending support to Malawi. Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera had declared a state of disaster a week earlier.
