New Delhi, July 2 -- Recent floods in Ivory Coast have killed at least 59 people, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Speaking after a Cabinet meeting, Amadou Coulibaly told reporters that "the council deplores the particularly high death toll of 59 this year."

On Monday, floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential rain in the capital cities of Ghana and Ivory Coast left at least 24 people dead and more missing.

Coulibaly did not specify how many people had died as a result of the most recent flooding in Ivory Coast.

Entire buildings and roads were submerged in Accra, Ghana on Monday, cutting off access to several areas of the Ghanian capital and in the neighboring city of Tema.

In Ivory Coast, several days of rain...