Tropical Storm Enawo killed 78 people and left about 380,000 affected by destruction in the southern African island nation of Madagascar, dpa quoted officials as saying Tuesday. On Sunday, Madagascar's National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management had placed the death toll at 50 people. The storm left almost 250,000 people displaced, the bureau said. More than half of those affected live in the capital, Antananarivo. A further 18 people remain missing. First ranked as a cyclone, Enawo slammed into the north of the Indian Ocean island last Tuesday. The north-east of the country is worst affected, the United Nations said in a statement. All of the region's vanilla fields are destroyed while 80 per cent of the rice crop is damaged. Madagascar has often been hit by violent cyclones. In 2012, Cyclone Giovanna and Storm Irina killed 112 people.
