{"id":11170,"date":"2017-03-11T06:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/cyclone-enawo-madagascar-death-toll-rises-to-38\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T06:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:05:27","slug":"cyclone-enawo-madagascar-death-toll-rises-to-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/cyclone-enawo-madagascar-death-toll-rises-to-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Enawo: Madagascar death toll rises to 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Workers take a makeshift boat to cross flooded vegetable gardens in Madagascar&quot;s capital Antananarivo, on Thursday, March 9, 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/11F9\/production\/_95110640_671362b3-2b3e-4f21-b838-e626a5019aaa.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AP<figcaption>Image caption                                      The death toll has risen in Madagascar. Pictured: Flooding in the capital                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">At least 38 people are now known to have died when Cyclone Enawo struck Madagascar this week.<\/p>\n<p>Another 180 people were injured and 53,000 displaced when the cyclone hit the country&#039;s north-east on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials revised the death toll and number of injured on Friday, having originally reported that just four people had lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Enawo diminished in strength after making landfall, and has been downgraded to a tropical depression.<\/p>\n<p>But not before the cyclone destroyed roads and cut off communications to the north-eastern Antalaha district.<\/p>\n<p>It dumped 12 inches of rain across the region in 12 hours on Tuesday, with winds reaching up to 300km\/h (185mph).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday, Thierry Venty, executive secretary of the National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management, said: &quot;The damage is enormous wherever the cyclone has gone.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-39241011 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright APImage caption The death toll has risen in Madagascar. Pictured: Flooding in the capital At least 38 people are now known to have died when Cyclone Enawo struck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}