Cyclone Freddy: Central Mozambique Battered After Storm Made Second Landfall

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Cyclone Freddy has battered central Mozambique after making landfall for a second time in a month, breaking records for the duration and strength of tropical storms in the southern hemisphere.

Footage released by UNICEF shows strong winds and heavy rain hitting the port town of Quelimane, central Mozambique, as residents battled the storm trying to carry on with their lives.

Communications and electricity supply in the storm area have been cut so the extent of the damage and number of casualties were not clear.

At least one person was killed in Quelimane on Saturday when his house collapsed as the storm swept onshore. Two weeks ago, 27 died when the storm first made landfall, after first being spotted near Indonesia on Feb. 6.