Record-Strength Cyclone Freddy Displaces Hundreds in 2nd Mozambique Landfall

Fallen branches on a street as Storm Freddy is due to hit Mozambique again, in Quelimane, Zambezia, Mozambique, on March 11, 2023, in this screengrab obtained from a video. UNICEF Mozambique/2023/Alfredo Zuniga/Handout via Reuters

JOHANNESBURG—Cyclone Freddy displaced hundreds of people as it battered central Mozambique on Sunday after making landfall for a second time in a month, breaking records for the duration and strength of tropical storms in the southern hemisphere.

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.