ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - Thirty-six people were killed and 42 were missing in north Madagascar after a storm lashed the region at the weekend, while scores more were feared drowned at sea, rescue services said. AFP Slideshow: Cyclones & Typhoons "The latest toll, established at 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) is 36 dead, 42 missing, 17 injured and 6,088 homeless" onland, rescue service official Farah Rasoarimamonjy told AFP. "With regard to the Samson ferry, we can confirm that there were two survivors but we have no official information about the other passengers," she said. "We cannot count them among the dead or the missing." 8th street latinas In the Comoro Islands, however, which lie between the large Indian Ocean nation and Africa's eastern coast, government spokesman and Transport Minister Ali Msaidie said the ferry was believed to have sunk, costing at least 118 lives. The Samson had set sail from the Comoros with 120 passengers and crew on Saturday night, bound for the northwest Madagascar port of Mahajanga, but one of two survivors, a woman, had said she saw it go down. Mike in Brazil The woman, who managed to grab hold of a life raft with another Comoran after she was hurled off the ferry by shifting cargo, reached the Madagascan coast and explained how she had seen the Samson struck by a huge wave. "We will decree three days of national mourning starting today," Msaidie told reporters. According to the manifest of the Samson ferry, the ship was carrying 70 Comorans, 25 Madagascans, and two French nationals. Eight of the passengers were children, five from the Comoros and three from Madagascar, said the ship's owner, Nadir Joulette Aly.