Residents are evacuated on pirogues after the Sisaony river burst and flooded the village of Soavina, a suburb of Antananarivo, after breaking a dam following a night of torrential rain, on February 27, 2015. At least 14 people died in flooding on February 27 in the Madagascan capital Antananarivo after a night of torrential rain caused dams to burst, rescue services said. About 24,000 people were driven from their homes in the floods and several neighbourhoods in the Indian Ocean island nation were being evacuated, the country's emergency management bureau said.