the fear of an extremely heavy toll
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If the official death toll shows 14 deaths, the fear that it could be terribly heavier is very strong.
“I think there will certainly be several hundred, perhaps we will approach a thousand, or even a few thousand” deaths given the “violence” of the cyclone, declared the prefect of Mayotte François-Xavier Bieuville on the channel public Mayotte the 1st.
But it will be “very difficult to have a final assessment” given that the Muslim tradition, very anchored in the small archipelago in the Indian Ocean, wants the deceased to be buried “within 24 hours”, specified the representative of the state.
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