Latest major storm to hit the Indian Ocean island in two weeks causes flooding, flattens buildings and cuts power
Lovasoa Rabary
One of the worst-hit towns was Nosy Varika on the east coast where nearly 95% of buildings were destroyed “as if we had just been bombed” and floods cut access, an official said. Madagascar’s office of disaster and risk management said in a bulletin late on Sunday 10 people had been killed. State radio said some died when their house collapsed in the town of Ambalavao, about 460km south of the capital Antananarivo.
Willy Raharijaona, technical adviser to the vice-president of Madagascar’s Senate, said some parts of the southeast had been cut off from the surrounding areas by flooding.
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