Aid workers on Friday set up emergency shelters and readied search and rescue teams in Madagascar as tropical cyclone Batsirai barrelled towards the island, less than two weeks after Storm Ana killed at least 58 people there.
"We are all very nervous as you can imagine," WFP's Pasqualina Disirio told Geneva-based journalists by video link from the capital Antananarivo. Some coastal areas have already been evacuated and schools were closed on Friday so that a portion of them can be converted into shelters, she added.Jens Laerke of the U.N.
"If this rain falls on ground already saturated then this increases the risk of flooding," Clare Nullis told the same briefing, warning of the risks of possible flash floods. After traversing the island, Batsirai is currently projected to curve away from the east African coast, avoiding Mozambique, she said.
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