At least 40 people have been confirmed dead on Monday from tropical storm Freddy in Malawi, where numbers are still coming in from areas affected by flooding, government officials said.
A residential area in Blantyre was covered in mud water as search and rescue operations dug through rocks to find trapped bodies after the storm ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month over the weekend.
Freddy is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere and could be the longest-lasting tropical cyclone, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Update: The government confirmed on Tuesday that the death toll has jumped to 190 people.
