Death toll climbs as Cyclone Freddy slams Malawi
Descrição
(13 Mar 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blantyre, Malawi - 13 March 2023
1. Various of houses destroyed by strong winds and rain
2. Wide of people digging through rubble and mud in rain
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Aubrey Singenyama, deputy spokesperson for Blantyre Police:
“The effects of Cyclone Freddy at the moment are so devastating. Currently, we have 63 deaths and 134 people that are injured that are admitted at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital receiving treatment.”
4. Various of damaged houses, flooding
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aubrey Singenyama, deputy spokesperson for Blantyre Police :
“We are conveying the dead bodies whenever we find them to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital mortuary of which is currently now full. But still more, we will still be going there with the dead bodies that would be still keep coming.”
6. Various of damaged road due to heavy rains
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quelimane, Mozambique - 12 March 2023
7. Various of houses destroyed due to strong winds
8. Wide of people walking near damage power lines blown to ground by strong winds
9. Various of damage
10. Wide of displaced people in a classroom
11. Wide of child sleeping in classroom
STORYLINE:
An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 68 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.
Local police said 63 people in Malawi have died, with 134 people injured and are admitted in hospital.
Authorities in Mozambique reported that five people were killed in the country since Saturday.
The deaths in Malawi include five members of a single family who died in Blantyre’s Ndirande township after Freddy’s destructive winds and heavy rains demolished their house, according to a police report.
Blantyre police spokesperson Aubrey Singenyama told the Associated Press that the Cyclone has been "devastating" and that the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, where they've been transporting the bodies, is full.
The cyclone lashed over Mozambique and Malawi over the weekend and into Monday.
It’s the second time the record-breaking cyclone — which has been causing destruction in southern Africa since late February — made landfall in mainland Africa.
The cyclone has intensified a record seven times and has the highest-ever recorded accumulated cyclone energy, or ACE, which is a measurement of how much energy a cyclone has released over time.
Freddy recorded more energy over its lifetime than an entire typical U.S. hurricane season.
Freddy first developed near Australia in early February and traveled across the entire southern Indian Ocean.
It's set to be the longest-ever recorded tropical cyclone.
Freddy made landfall in the seaport of Quelimane in Mozambique on Saturday where there are reports of damage to houses and farmlands, although the extent of the destruction is not yet clear.
Telecommunications and other essential infrastructure are still cut off in much of the affected Zambezia province, impeding rescue and other humanitarian efforts.
Much of the damage experienced in Malawi is in homes built in areas prohibited by law such as in mountainous regions or near rivers where they are battling landslides, unprecedented flooding and rivers bursting their banks.
AP video shot by Kenneth Jali
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blantyre, Malawi - 13 March 2023
1. Various of houses destroyed by strong winds and rain
2. Wide of people digging through rubble and mud in rain
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Aubrey Singenyama, deputy spokesperson for Blantyre Police:
“The effects of Cyclone Freddy at the moment are so devastating. Currently, we have 63 deaths and 134 people that are injured that are admitted at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital receiving treatment.”
4. Various of damaged houses, flooding
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aubrey Singenyama, deputy spokesperson for Blantyre Police :
“We are conveying the dead bodies whenever we find them to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital mortuary of which is currently now full. But still more, we will still be going there with the dead bodies that would be still keep coming.”
6. Various of damaged road due to heavy rains
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quelimane, Mozambique - 12 March 2023
7. Various of houses destroyed due to strong winds
8. Wide of people walking near damage power lines blown to ground by strong winds
9. Various of damage
10. Wide of displaced people in a classroom
11. Wide of child sleeping in classroom
STORYLINE:
An unrelenting Cyclone Freddy that is currently battering southern Africa has killed at least 68 people in Malawi and Mozambique since it struck the continent for a second time on Saturday night, authorities in both countries have confirmed.
Local police said 63 people in Malawi have died, with 134 people injured and are admitted in hospital.
Authorities in Mozambique reported that five people were killed in the country since Saturday.
The deaths in Malawi include five members of a single family who died in Blantyre’s Ndirande township after Freddy’s destructive winds and heavy rains demolished their house, according to a police report.
Blantyre police spokesperson Aubrey Singenyama told the Associated Press that the Cyclone has been "devastating" and that the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, where they've been transporting the bodies, is full.
The cyclone lashed over Mozambique and Malawi over the weekend and into Monday.
It’s the second time the record-breaking cyclone — which has been causing destruction in southern Africa since late February — made landfall in mainland Africa.
The cyclone has intensified a record seven times and has the highest-ever recorded accumulated cyclone energy, or ACE, which is a measurement of how much energy a cyclone has released over time.
Freddy recorded more energy over its lifetime than an entire typical U.S. hurricane season.
Freddy first developed near Australia in early February and traveled across the entire southern Indian Ocean.
It's set to be the longest-ever recorded tropical cyclone.
Freddy made landfall in the seaport of Quelimane in Mozambique on Saturday where there are reports of damage to houses and farmlands, although the extent of the destruction is not yet clear.
Telecommunications and other essential infrastructure are still cut off in much of the affected Zambezia province, impeding rescue and other humanitarian efforts.
Much of the damage experienced in Malawi is in homes built in areas prohibited by law such as in mountainous regions or near rivers where they are battling landslides, unprecedented flooding and rivers bursting their banks.
AP video shot by Kenneth Jali
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