PHOTOS: Cyclone Freddy affects 500,000 people in Malawi

An excavator digs to search for survivors after mudslide which occurred due to heavy rains resulting from cyclone Freddy at Manje informal settlement in Blantyre, southern Malawi, on March 16, 2023. 

Men carry dead bodies from where they have been recovered to where an ambulance would transfer them to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital morgue during a joint search and rescue operation to recover bodies of victims of the mudslide at Manje informal settlement up on the slopes of Soche Hill in Blantyre, Malawi, on March 17, 2023. 

Malawi Defence Force, (MDF) soldiers and civilians work to recover body of a victim of  a mudslide which resulted due to heavy rains resulting from cyclone Freddy during an MDF and Malawi Police Service rescue operation at Manje informal settlement up the slopes of Soche Hill in Blantyre, southern Malawi, on March 17, 2023. 

Malawi Defence Force, (MDF) soldiers and civilians work to recover body of a victim of  a mudslide which resulted due to heavy rains resulting from cyclone Freddy during an MDF and Malawi Police Service rescue operation at Manje informal settlement up the slopes of Soche Hill in Blantyre, southern Malawi, on March 17, 2023. 

This handout photograph taken and distributed by UNICEF on March 12, 2023 shows a general view after Cyclone Freddy Hit the city of Quelimane, in Zambezia Province, causing severe damage to infrastructures, trees, power, and communication. 

This handout photograph taken and distributed by UNICEF on March 12, 2023 shows people walking along a street damaged by the impact of Cyclone Freddy in the city of Quelimane. 
 

People walk up a hill in Blantyre on March 14, 2023, following cyclone Freddy's landfall. - Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, killed more than 100 people in Malawi and Mozambique on its return to southern Africa's mainland, authorities said on March 13, 2023.

People walk across a makeshift bridge over flood water in Blantyre on March 14, 2023, caused by heavy rains following cyclone Freddy's landfall.

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera (L) pays his last respects to victims of a mudslide during a mass funeral at Chilobwe township’s Naotcha Primary school camp in Blantyre City, Malawi, on March 15, 2023.