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The death toll in continental Africa, where the storm hit after passing through Mayotte, rose on Wednesday to 45 in Mozambique – from 34 a day earlier – and in Malawi to 13 from an earlier ...
Cyclone Chido struck the islands of Mayotte with close to 140mph (225kmph) winds, and the death toll may reach a “thousand, even several thousands”, prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said.
The confirmed death toll on Mayotte so far is 35 but, in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, local prefect François-Xavier Bieuville feared that it would "definitely be several hundred" and ...
Asked about the death toll from Cyclone Chido, the French interior ... even several thousands," prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said on local media channel Mayotte La 1ere. Asked about the death ...
The death toll in continental Africa, where the storm hit after passing through Mayotte, stood at 45 in Mozambique and 13 in Malawi, officials in those countries said.
Mayotte was directly in the cyclone’s path, though, and took the brunt. Chido brought winds in excess of 220 kph (136 mph), according to the French weather service, making it a category 4 cyclone, the second strongest on the scale.
The death toll from a cyclone which hit France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday is likely to be several hundred, a local official has warned. Entire communities were flattened when ...
While the official death toll stood at 14, officials in Mayotte said they feared hundreds, if not thousands of people had been killed by the storm on the densely populated territory, which is home ...