Photo: AFPAFP · 22 Aug 2016, 09:12Published: 22 Aug 2016 09:12 GMT+02:00Two young French volunteers found dead Sunday on an island off the northeast coast of Madagascar were likely murdered, French and Madagascan authorities said. The French foreign ministry in a statement condemned the "odious crime that claimed the lives of two French nationals". Madagascan Tourism Minister Roland Ratsiraka said he had spoken to the French ambassador to the Indian Ocean island and that the consul would be visiting Sainte Marie on Monday. Cetamada vice-president Jean-Jacques Ravello, who is also France's honorary consul to Sainte Marie island, called the incident "barbaric". In 2012, a French couple was found dead on a beach in southern Madagascar.

Source: The Local August 21, 2016 21:56 UTC