- Madagascar’s disaster and risk management office has reported that Cyclone Batsirai has wreaked havoc in the country.
- Many lives have been lost primarily due to house collapses while nearly 48,000 forced from their homes.
Madagascar’s disaster and risk management office has reported that Cyclone Batsirai has wreaked havoc in the country. Many lives have been lost primarily due to house collapses while nearly 48,000 forced from their homes. This is the second major storm to hit the island nation in two weeks. In Late January, tropical Storm Ana had affected at least 131,000 people across Madagascar with nearly 60 people killed
After passing Mauritius and causing torrential rain in the French island of La Reunion, Cyclone Batsirai came to Madagascar as predicted by the Meteo-France weather service. With winds of 165 kilometres (103 miles) per hour the cyclone completely destroyed Mananjary, , uprooting trees and destroying buildings.
Willy Raharijaona, technical adviser to the vice president of Madagascar’s Senate, reported that  parts of the southeast had been cut off by flooding while the city of Nosy Varika was almost 95 percent destroyed.
