Mayotte is taking stock, this Sunday, of the terrible damage sown the day before by Cyclone Chido, which left at least 14 dead in the poorest department in France, where relief efforts are being organized.
According to a very provisional report, this tropical cyclone of exceptional intensity has caused at least 14 deaths in the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a security source said on Sunday morning.
According to the mayor of Mamoudzou Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, nine injured people were treated at the Mayotte Hospital Center (CHM) in absolute emergency, and 246 in relative emergency.
With gusts observed at more than 220 km/h, Cyclone Chido is the most intense to hit Mayotte in more than 90 years, according to Météo France. Extremely violent winds ravaged the archipelago with electrical poles downed, trees uprooted and sheet metal roofs or partitions blown away in a territory where precarious housing affects at least a third of the population.
The resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau estimated on Saturday evening after an interministerial crisis meeting that he “will probably take days” pour “refine“the human toll. But”we are afraid it will be heavy“, he warned, speaking of a “dramatic situation“. He is expected there on Monday in the company of his overseas counterpart, François-Noël Buffet.
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