French territory off East Africa reeling from devastating cyclone, widespread damage to infrastructure and homes.
Rescuers raced against time on Monday to reach survivors after a powerful cyclone hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, laying to waste the territory's many shantytowns, with hundreds feared dead.
The mayor of Mayotte's capital Mamoudzou, Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, told AFP the storm"spared nothing".French President Emmanuel Macron will host a crisis meeting on the disaster in Paris at 6:00 pm , the presidency said. At least a third of the territory's 320,000 residents live in shantytowns, where homes with sheet-metal roofs were flattened by the storm.
Patrice Latron, prefect of Reunion, said residents of Mayotte were facing"an extremely chaotic situation, immense destruction". The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the WHO"stands ready to support communities in need of essential health care". The"exceptional" cyclone was super-charged by particularly warm Indian Ocean waters, meteorologist Francois Gourand of the Meteo France weather service told AFP.
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