Cyclone Garance leaves at least 4 dead after passing through the meeting island

At least four people They died after the passage of cyclone Tropical Gararan for the French meeting island in the Indian Ocean. The storm came with more than 200 kilometers of heavy rain and wind per hour and caused great damage to housing and basic infrastructure.

Approximately 200,000 people remained without electricity from the population of approximately 900,000 of the French section. Local authorities claim that they are more than 170,000 calm They lost access to drinking water. In addition, hundreds of people took refuge in emergency shelters due to the risk of floods or landslides caused by heavy rains. With the passing of the hours, the authorities reduced the top purple Cyclone warning to a red warning.

Currently the inhabitants are still asked that they stayed in their homesBecause heavy rains and strong winds are expected to continue throughout the day. In the meantime, in December, in the southeast of Mayotte, a team of options exposed to the worst cyclone in almost a century, about 1,500 kilometers of cleaning tasks are performed on the island.

Although citizens living on the island of the meeting claim to be “prepared for the worst”, the Cyclone was very strong, as Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau pointed out. French officials promised to send reinforcements to go to the aid of the population. A distribution of a hundred firefighters. In addition, they will send basic goods, bottled water will be distributed in the most affected areas and sixty puddles have been taken according to the citizens.

Communication is very complex. Thousands of calm, no access to the phone line or the internet Disruption of recurrencers. The coastal road, which was an important way to the west and north of the island, was reopened to traffic after being closed last afternoon last Thursday.