Powerful tropical Cyclone Freddy tore through parts of Madagascar on Wednesday, killing four people on the Indian Ocean island, disaster management authorities said.
A 27-year-old man drowned in rising sea waters on Tuesday just before the storm, which packed winds of around 130 kilometres per hour , made landfall.The storm has affected 16,600 people, according to the country's National Risk Management Office .
"It's a dry cyclone compared to Batsirai, so it brought less rains, but the winds were stronger, this why infrastructure was badly affected," risk management senior official Faly Aritiana Fabien told AFP.By daybreak in Mananjary residents were out on the streets to assess the damage and salvage what they could, witnesses said.
"I didn't think there was a more powerful cyclone than Batsirai," he said."My fence is down, my 1,000-litre plastic water tank smashed against the neighbour's wall"."I can't take this every year, it's not possible," he said.The UN's World Food Programme estimates more than 2.3 million people in Madagascar could be affected by Freddy and that the cyclone will then pass through Mozambique and Zimbabwe on the African mainland.
At least 8,000 people were evacuated as a precaution in the Mananjary district but were expected to return to their homes in a day or two.
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