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Article: Cyclone hits Madagascar's east coast, another wandering around
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 26, 2007
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Cyclone hits Madagascar's east coast, another wandering around
ANTANANARIVO, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- A mild tropical storm hit the
east coast of Madagascar on Sunday evening though the center of the
cyclone is still hundreds of kilometers away.
An engineer at the National Weather Forecast Department confirmed
here on Monday that the cyclone, codenamed Gamede, destroyed the
means of communications with its strong wind in Maroantsetra, a
coastal town about 700 km northeast to the capital city of
Antananarivo.
The center of the storm was still 400 km off the east coast by 9
a.m. local time (0600 GMT) on Sunday morning with a slow speed of
only 6 kph towards Madagascar's east coast, ...