French President Emmanuel Macron has surveyed the devastation that a cyclone wrought across the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte as thousands of people tried to cope without the bare essentials and amid fears of a surging death toll. “Mayotte is demolished,” an airport security agent told Macron on Thursday as soon as he stepped of the plane. The security agent, Assane Haloi, said her family members, including small children, are without water or electricity and have nowhere to go, after Cyclone Chido, the strongest cyclone in nearly a century, ripped through the French territory on Saturday.

 

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