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Cyclone Kills At Least 16 In Madagascar; UNICEF Responds With Medicines, Mosquito Nets
"At least 16 people have been killed this week when a category four cyclone lashed Madagascar's eastern shores, rescue authorities said on Wednesday," Reuters reports, adding, "Some 65 people were injured and about 11,000 people left homeless after Cyclone Giovanna pummeled the country's eastern seaboard causing power shutdowns in parts of the island's port city of Tamatave, rescue officials said" (Iloniaina, 2/16). UNICEF "will start distributing medicines and mosquito nets [Thursday] to the parts of eastern Madagascar hardest hit" by the cyclone, the U.N. News Centre writes.
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