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“It’s carnage”, testifies a retired nurse on site

“It’s carnage. The court, the prefecture, many services, businesses, schools are on the ground” tells AFP Ousseni Balahachi, a retired nurse, from Mamoudzou, the administrative center of Mayotte. Huts destroyed, tin roofs blown away, electrical poles down, trees uprooted… The residents, who remained confined during the passage of the cyclone, discovered, stunned, scenes of chaos. Many roads are impassable and many communications cut. The resumption of commercial flights is not envisaged before “at best ten days” according to a prefectural source.