By Aurelien Breeden, Amelia Nierenberg and Isabella Kwai Officials in the French territory off the eastern coast of Africa said the number of people killed by Tropical Cyclone Chido could be much higher than the 14 now confirmed dead. Source: The New York Times Category: Deaths (Fatalities), Weather, Mayotte (Comoro Islands), Mozambique, Cyclones, France, Africa, […]
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Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the most powerful cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a senior local French official said on Sunday. “I think there will certainly be several hundreds, maybe we will reach a thousand, even several thousands,” prefect Francois-Xavier […]
By Mike Ives and Nazaneen Ghaffar The storm, the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane, was moving inland across the country, a day after killing at least 11 people in Mayotte, a French archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Source: The New York Times Category: Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, Cyclones, Africa, Indian Ocean, Mayotte (Comoro Islands), […]