The human toll from the cyclone that hit the island on the night of Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 February continues to increase. Madagascar has suffered heavy losses, and for the daily The Big Island Gazette, the executive is not up to the situation.
Eighty people died, according to the latest official death toll. And the tally should not take long to go up.
Cyclone Batsirai, which struck Madagascar on the night of Saturday, February 5 to Sunday, February 6 (and finally left the island on Monday), caused enormous material damage. But it has also killed many citizens, as revealed by the balance sheets that are growing day by day.
So, on Wednesday, February 9, the tally of dead people communicated by the authorities rose to 80 dead. Worse, the local press already reports a figure of more than 100 victims.
94,000 affected and 60,000 displaced
Media Madagascar Tribune, for example, explains that a “hundreds of deaths have been recorded at the level of several municipalities in the district of Ikongo”, one of the most affected, in the south-west of the country. A figure provided by the deputy of this locality, Jean Brunelle Razafintsiandraofa, but which can not yet be counted in the official total balance sheet of the BNGRC (the National Office of risk and Disaster Management, body that deals with the count), explains the Malagasy news site.
Finally, to the death figures is added a total (official and temporary,
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