111 killed in Madagascar tropical storm
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E-mail Xinhua, March 9, 2012
The two latest tropical disturbances which hit Madagascar last week killed at least 111 people and left 332,204 people homeless, the national office of risks and disasters management (BNGRC) said in its release on Friday.
The BNGRC said in its preliminary assessment that the moderate tropical storm Irina, which swept through the northeast of Madagascar on Feb. 26 and docked the southwest coast of the island country until March 2, killed 76 people, injured 15, wiped out three and left homeless 85,335 others.
The highest number of deaths recorded after the passage of Irina was in Ifanadiana district in the southeast of the island country with 48 death tolls, while Vangaindrano and Farafangana districts, also in the southeast, recorded the most homeless with respectively 3,909 and 25,086.
Nearly 7,056 housing spaces were flooded, 147 were damaged and 1,372 were completely destroyed by Irina, while 3,713 hectares of rice fields and 12,600 crop fields were affected. These data were collected from 103 of the 829 municipalities in the trajectory of Irina.
Regarding the tropical Cyclone Giovanna, which came by the east coast of Madagascar on Feb. 13 and left the country on Feb. 14 by the southwest coast, the BNGRC reported 35 death tolls, 284 injured and 246,869 homeless.
Madagascar is an island located in the southern hemisphere and in the cyclonic basin of the Indian Ocean, where a dozen tropical disturbances form every year from Nov. 15 to April 30.
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