PORT LOUIS/ANTANANARIVO Feb 20 (Reuters) - Mauritius grounded flights and shut its stock exchange as tropical cyclone Freddy approached the island across the Indian Ocean on Monday, while emergency teams braced for heavy rains, floods and landslides in ...
The cyclone, packing gusts of up to 120 km per hour , posed a “direct threat” to Mauritius, its weather service said.
The cyclone could pass as close as 120 km to the north-northwest of the island late in the afternoon, the service said. “Torrential rains… very high to enormous seas… and a significant risk of coastal flooding are particularly to be feared in the localities around the point of impact,” Madagascar’s weather service said.
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