Heavy rains coupled with strong winds on Thursday cut off road network and destroyed property worth millions of Kwacha in the area of Traditional Authority Symon in Neno district.

Over one hundred families in Karonga have been rendered homeless as a result of heavy rains and strong winds that have destroyed their houses.

Thousands of people have been rendered destitute while houses and other property have been destroyed between Wednesday and Thursday in Lilongwe due to heavy rains.

The Department of Climate Change and Metrological Services has issued an alert of imminent flooding in the southern and northern regions of the country due to expected heavy downpour.

A team from Malawi Parliament in Lilongwe on Tuesday afternoon inspected its warehouse that has had part of its roof affected by heavy rains Monday night at Maoni in Blantyre.