 The number of Comorians residing in Madagascar was drastically reduced after anti-Comorian rioting in December 1976 in Mahajanga, in which at least 1,400 Comorians were killed.As many as 17,000 Comorians left Madagascar to seek refuge in their native land in 1977 alone.About 100,000 Comorians live in France; many of them had gone there for a university education and never returned.