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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

Three people had died as the storm battered Madagascar and another 13 in the heavy rain that followed its departure, the office said in a statement late on Thursday. The rain was persisting, it said.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

Heavy rainfall that followed the landfall of Tropical Storm Cheneso in Madagascar has killed 16 people and left 17 missing, the government's Office for Risk and Disaster Management said.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

The storm, which reached land on Jan. 19, is the first for 2023 of an annual series that typically forms in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the island nation.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

Three people had died as the storm battered Madagascar and another 13 in the heavy rain that followed its departure, the office said in a statement late on Thursday. The rain was persisting, it said.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

The storm had headed back to sea on Sunday and had been stationary off the western city of Morondava for more than two days, the office said.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

The storm and rain had so far displaced just over 60,000 people and damaged 13,000 houses and 100 classrooms, the European Commission's Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department said in a statement on Thursday.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

Madagascar and Mozambique in recent years have been repeatedly hit by severe storms and cyclones that have destroyed homes, infrastructure and crops and displaced large numbers of people.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar

In January and February last year, four major storms hit Madagascar, killing at least 138 people, destroying 124,000 homes and displacing about 130,000 people.

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Tropical Storm Cheneso, ensuing rain kill 16 in Madagascar