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Videos showed wide flooding and infrastructure damage. (Representational photo/ AP)
Mayotte, a French territory successful the Indian Ocean, is grappling with terrible flooding and mudslides caused by Storm Dikeledi, conscionable a period aft Cyclone Chido devastated the region.
The tempest brought convulsive winds, flash floods, and landslides connected Sunday morning, prompting authorities to contented a reddish alert. François-Xavier Bieuville, the prefect of Mayotte, reported dense rains causing important harm and predicted the alert would stay until Monday evening.
Videos showed wide flooding and infrastructure damage, with Mbouini, a colony spared by Cyclone Chido, present submerged. Emergency sheltlers person been acceptable up, lodging implicit 14,500 displaced residents.
Dikeledi made landfall successful bluish Madagascar connected Saturday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 people, earlier passing 100 km (62 miles) southbound of Mayotte connected Sunday. The tempest is expected to intensify arsenic it moves toward Mozambique, though landfall is not anticipated.
The impoverished portion of Mayotte, location to 320,000 residents and thousands of undocumented migrants, is still recovering from Cyclone Chido, which brought 260 km/h (160 mph) winds successful December, sidesplitting 39 and displacing many.
(With inputs from BBC)
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