Five more people were found dead in Madagascar after tropical cyclone Jade, pushing
the death toll to 15, officials said Thursday.
A further 22,900 people were also registered as homeless, bringing the number without shelter to over 60,800.
The new deaths and homeless figures were reported in the northeastern district of Antalaha, where Jade made landfall on April 6, according to a revised toll released by the national emergency management office.
Officials had been unable to collect the data from the district because of rising waters in the area.
The emergency management office also reported that 63 percent of Antalaha's coffee and vanilla crops, the region's key exports, were damaged.
Three-quarters of susbistence crops and 65 percent of fruit trees were destroyed, it added.
Madagascar's cyclone season runs from November to April. In January, at least nine people were killed and more than 20,000 lost their homes after two cyclones hit the Indian Ocean island.
