Cyclone death toll in Madagascar rises to 111
The death toll from Cyclone Batsirai in Madagascar has jumped to 111, the state disaster relief agency said on Friday.
This is an increase from 92 reported earlier this week.
The agency said that of the deaths, 87 had occurred in the Ikongo district in southeast Madagascar, saying it was still collecting details about what had happened in Ikongo.
The cyclone hit the Indian Ocean Island on February 5, slamming the south-eastern coastline before receding.
Batsirai was Madagascar’s second destructive storm in two weeks, after Cyclone Ana that killed 55 people and displaced 130,000 in a different area of the country, further north.
The island nation, with a population of nearly 30 million, was already struggling with food shortages in the south, a consequence of a severe and prolonged drought.
(Reuters/NAN)
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