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Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people are feared dead in Mayotte after the French Indian Ocean territory was devastated by a powerful cyclone. Rescue workers are still attempting to reach some communities as they search for survivors. Entire settlements were flattened when Cyclone Chido brought wind speeds of more than 225km/h (140mph), with the poorest living in makeshift shelters particularly hard hit. Some of Mayotte’s population of 320,000 have said they are struggling with severe shortages of food, water and shelter. One resident of the capital city, Mamoudzou, waiting in line for supplies said: “We’ve had no water for three days now, so it’s starting to be a lot. We’re trying to get the bare minimum to live on, because we don’t know when the water will come back.” Another resident said: “It was the wind, the wind blowing, and I was panicked, I screamed, ‘We need help, we need help.’ I was screaming because I could see the end coming for me.” A third resident said: “You feel like you are in the aftermath of a nuclear war… I saw an entire neighbourhood disappear.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said his thoughts are with “our compatriots in Mayotte, who have gone through the most horrific few hours and who have, for some, lost everything, lost their lives”.
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