Survivors in shock as Cyclone Freddy toll passes 400 in Malawi, Mozambique

BLANTYRE --- The last thing Lukia Akimu remembers is the surge of floodwater that hit her village near Mount Soche this week when TropicalCycloneFreddytore through southernMalawi. The next thing she knew, she woke up in a 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. TropicalCycloneFreddyhas killed more than 400 people inMalawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar since it first...

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