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The detailed accounts issued by the National Risks and Catastrophe Management Department (local BNGRC) report 18 casualties, 81 wounded, 9 Basic Healthcare Centers damaged, 68 schools damaged, 117 administration facilities damaged, 125 of the electricity providing company’s poles brought down, 1 120 cabins leveled to the ground, 1 438 cabins flooded, 2 776 cabins damaged, 1 500 hectares of paddy fields flooded, 6 351 hectares of various other fields flooded, 9 965 victims left homeless, 22 498 people affected in all. Electricity remains available during three hours a day at most to the few districts entitled to this privilege.
The cyclone HARUNA wrecked a considerable havoc in the southern part of Madagascar. The temporary accounts issued by the local national department in charge of managing such a situation report some 22 000 people and thousands of hectares of flooded paddy fields. As the next incoming is famine dangerously waylaying in the concerned area.