Death toll rises to 15 in Madagascar cyclone, 60,000 homeless

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Cyclone warning for Bangladesh
Weather officials in Bangladesh issued a cyclone warning for the southern part of the country on Thursday and urged boats not to sail. Cyclonic storm Bijli was expected to intensify before making landfall late Friday or early Saturday, said Weather Department meteorologist Sadequl Alam. "We have raised the warning signal to four out of a possible 10, with 10 being the highest. At this stage it's too early to say where it will hit, but it may hit Bangladesh or the Bangladesh-Myanmar coastline," he told AFP. Alam said the storm was travelling at about 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour. More than 3,500 people were killed during cyclone Sidr in November 2007, the second strongest storm ever recorded in Bangladesh.

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Antananarivo (AFP) April 16, 2009
Five more people were found dead in Madagascar after tropical cyclone Jade, pushing

the death toll to 15, officials said Thursday.

A further 22,900 people were also registered as homeless, bringing the number without shelter to over 60,800.

The new deaths and homeless figures were reported in the northeastern district of Antalaha, where Jade made landfall on April 6, according to a revised toll released by the national emergency management office.

Officials had been unable to collect the data from the district because of rising waters in the area.

The emergency management office also reported that 63 percent of Antalaha's coffee and vanilla crops, the region's key exports, were damaged.

Three-quarters of susbistence crops and 65 percent of fruit trees were destroyed, it added.

Madagascar's cyclone season runs from November to April. In January, at least nine people were killed and more than 20,000 lost their homes after two cyclones hit the Indian Ocean island.

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