December 15, 2024
‘Thousands’ feared dead in Cyclone Mayotte, senior French official says
A photo taken on December 15, 2024 shows residents sitting among piles of debris made of sheet metal and wood after homes were destroyed by Cyclone Chido which hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte.— AFP Several hundred people and possibly even thousands may have been killed when the strongest cyclone in nearly a century hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a senior local French official said on Sunday. “I think it will definitely be several hundred, maybe we’ll reach a thousand, even several thousand,” Prefect Francois-Xavier Biéville told local Mayotte media channel La 1ere. Asked about


