According to the latest provisional assessment, published by the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC), 34 people have lost their lives following the bad weather of the last few days in Madagascar.
Heavy rains have hit the Malagasy capital, Antananarivo, as well as the eastern and western parts of the Big Island, in recent days. According to the latest provisional report published by the National Office of Risk Management and Disasters (BNGRC), 34 victims are recorded, following these bad weather.
The office also reported 62,112 people affected in seven regions and 35,262 people were displaced from their flooded homes. They were distributed over 63 accommodation sites.
In Manjakandriana, three people, including a 68-year-old woman, a 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old boy, lost their lives on Sunday, according to information from the local gendarmerie. Rockfalls that caused the collapse of houses are the cause of most of the deaths. In the localities of Mantasoa, Sabotsy Namehana, Ambatoloana and Ambohimanga Rova, one death per locality was recorded.
An urgent appeal was launched in the middle of the night by the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) for the inhabitants of the Upper Town of Antananarivo. Residents in several neighborhoods were asked to leave their homes following a landslide that would have occurred below the Cathedral of Andohalo and imminent risks of landslides on the western and eastern flanks of Manjakamiadana,
The inhabitants of Amparibe, Ambatovinaky, Ankadilalana, Tsimialonjafy, Tsarafaritra, Ambohipotsy, Andohinimandry, Faliarivo Ambanidia, Manjakamiadana and Andafiavaratra were thus invited to leave the place during the night. Police and military officers were then mobilized to sensitize the inhabitants of Ampamarinana to follow the instructions given.
In the neighborhoods located at low altitude, in the immediate vicinity of the rivers of Ikopa, Sisaony and Mamba, the inhabitants were also asked to leave their homes in another notice launched by the BNGRC in the evening. The director general of the Authority for the Protection against Flooding of the Antananarivo Plain (APIPA), Ranto Rakotonjanahary, explained that the three rivers are still placed under red alert, meaning that the risk of flooding is imminent. These rivers can at any time leave their beds. That is why, a call to leave the premises for the inhabitants concerned by the notice launched by the BNGRC has been issued, he added.
