At least six people have been killed and nearly 48,000 displaced when Cyclone Batsirai strikes Madagascar overnight, the national disaster management agency says
At least six people have died and nearly 48,000 displaced in Madagascar after Cyclone Batsirai struck the Indian ocean island overnight.
An official updated list of numbers of people impacted by the storm which brought heavy rains and winds, showed a total of 47,888 people had been displaced. Batsirai made landfall in Mananjary on Saturday night as an "intense tropical cyclone", packing winds of 165 kilometres per hour, Faly Aritiana Fabien of the country's disaster management agency said.
The cyclone's average wind speed had almost halved to 80 kilometres per hour, while the strongest gusts had fallen back to 110 km/h from the 235 km/h recorded when it made landfall, Meteo Madagascar said.
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