Cyclone toll reaches 69
Pastor Dale Morgan
Cyclone toll reaches 69*
From correspondents in Antananarivo
March 23, 2007 05:57am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
A TOTAL of 69 people were killed and more than 77,000 left homeless
after a cyclone struck northern Madagascar last week, authorities said
overnight in a sharp upward revision of the toll.
The national emergencies agency, the BNGRC, said new figures showed that
33 people were killed in the town of Port-Berge, in addition to the 36
dead elsewhere counted up to yesterday.
The BNGRC said 77,674 people were made homeless, up from 53,750. In
addition, 17 bridges and 40 public buildings had been damaged, and 8000
hectares (20,000 acres) of ricefields destroyed.
Cyclone Indlaha is by far the deadliest of the six to have hit
Madagascar so far this season.
Three years ago cyclone Gafilo left 241 people dead in the Indian Ocean
island.