French President Emmanuel Macron visited the French territory of Mayotte after it was hit by a powerful cyclone that caused widespread devastation and left thousands displaced and injured.
Luigi Mangione began plotting to 'wack' UnitedHealthcare CEO as early as August, scrawled plans in notebook. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron visited Mayotte , a French territory off the coast of Africa, which was devastated by the strongest cyclone in nearly a century. The cyclone ripped through the territory on Saturday, leaving thousands displaced and injured. “ Mayotte is demolished,” Assane Haloi, a security agent, told Macron after he stepped off the plane.
Macron had been moving along in a line of people greeting him when Haloi grasped his hand and spoke for a minute about the devastation. “We are without water, without electricity, there is nowhere to go because everything is demolished,” she said. “We can’t even shelter, we are all wet with our children covering ourselves with whatever we have so that we can sleep.” Hundreds or even thousands of people are feared dead. Macron arrived shortly after The Associated Press and other journalists from outside were able to reach Mayotte to provide accounts from survivors of the horror over the weekend when winds howled above 220 kph (136 mph) and peeled the roofs and walls from homes that collapsed around the people inside. In the shantytown of Kaweni on the outskirts of the capital Mamoudzou, a swath of hillside homes was reduced to scraps of corrugated metal, plastic, piles of bedding and clothing, and pieces of timber marking the frame where homes once stood.“Those of us who are here are still in shock, but God let us live,” Nassirou Hamidouni said as he dug in the rubble of his former home. “We are sad. We can’t sleep because of all of the houses that have been destroyed.” Macron took a helicopter tour of the damage and then met with patients and staff at a hospital, where a woman who works in the psychological unit became emotional as she described staff becoming exhausted and unable to care for patients
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