More than two days after the devastating and deadly passage of Cyclone Chido, emergency services are organizing to find survivors.
The authorities carried out “25 first evacuations” of patients to Reunion Island on Monday evening.
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EMERGENCY WORKERS ON THE WORK
Airlift, clearing obstacles on the road, transporting food to the most remote areas: the rescuers and police on site are working tirelessly to help the victims.
Mayotte: the rescue race against timeSource : TF1 Info
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?”
François Bayrou was arrested this Monday evening while attending the municipal council of Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. “What are you doing here? You are out of place, Mr. Bayrou,” declared a member of the opposition in the context of the crisis affecting the Mayotte archipelago.
Mayotte: François Bayrou arrested in PauSource : TF1 Info
NATIONAL MOURNING
The President of the Republic announces that he will visit the Mayotte archipelago, devastated by Cyclone Chido. He also plans to declare national mourning, a first since 2020 and the death of former president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
BONJOUR
Welcome to this live broadcast devoted to the consequences of the passage of Cyclone Chido over the Mayotte archipelago during the night from Friday to Saturday. The material damage is immense and the authorities fear a very heavy human toll. Follow here, throughout the day, the latest news.
The race against time continues. More than two days after the devastating and deadly passage of Cyclone Chido, emergency services are organizing to find survivors in the rubble in Mayotte, a battered archipelago where the first evacuations took place on Monday and where Emmanuel Macron, who will decree “a national mourning” , will surrender “in the coming days”. Authorities carried out Monday evening “First 25 evacuations” of patients to Reunion, the resigning Minister of Health Geneviève Darrieussecq also announced to AFP.
“The island is completely devastated. The precarious housing, the shanty towns, nothing remains,” declared Monday evening the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, returning to Reunion after a visit “at the heart of the disaster” in Mayotte, alongside his Overseas colleague François-Noël Buffet. The authorities fear “several hundred” dead, maybe “a few thousand”, but Bruno Retailleau refused to do anything “prognosis”, emphasizing that he “will take days and days” before having a real assessment.
The count is complicated by the fact that Mayotte is a land with a strong Muslim tradition and that, according to Islamic rites, many of the deceased were probably buried within 24 hours of their death. For now, the authorities officially count 21 deaths in hospital and the local prefect has set up a “dead search mission”.
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