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Only two survive disaster

ANTALAHA (Madagascar), March 12. A ferry that went missing in a cyclone off Madagascar sank with all but two of its 113 passengers and crew trapped inside, port authorities have said.

The survivors — a man and woman from Comoros — told officials at the north-western port of Mahajanga that the ship capsized on Sunday evening in violent seas.

They said they washed ashore in Madagascar the following day on a makeshift raft.

The drownings brought the toll from Cyclone Gafilo to 154. More than 80,000 people have been cut off from the outside world since the cyclone ripped through northern Madagascar on Sunday, collapsing bridges, toppling trees and reducing tarred roads to gravel.

Telephone and power lines were also downed in the storm. Gafilo then swept out to sea before doubling back and taking a second hit at the Indian Ocean island near the southwestern town of Morombe on Wednesday.

— AP

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