Emergency workers sought survivors on Monday and struggled to restore services in Mayotte.
, where hundreds or even thousands are feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century.
“The images are apocalyptic. It’s a disaster, there’s nothing left,” an intensive care nurse named Oceane at the main hospital in the capital Mamoudzou told BFM TV. “I saw someone injured by a sheet of metal … Houses with sheet metal roofs were swept away by the cyclone. There are precarious dwellings of which we cannot see the slightest trace,” he added.Communications were down in large parts of the territory, leaving relatives outside desperately enquiring on social media. “I need an update from Chiconi please, my brother, my sister-in-law and my niece are there and I’m without any news since Saturday,” said one.
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