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At least four people dead as Tropical Cyclone Yasa leaves trail of destruction in Fiji
The death toll from a category five cyclone that tore through northern Fiji has risen to four, as emergency crews work to assess the full extent of the damage from one of the year’s strongest storms.
Key points:
- The deaths of two men come after two people, including a baby, were confirmed as casualties
- One resident says everybody was “astonished with fear” as Tropical Cyclone Yasa hit her village
- More than 16,000 people are still living in evacuation centres across Fiji
Tropical Cyclone Yasa was packing winds of up to 345 kilometres per hour when it struck the country’s northern islands on Thursday night and Friday morning
A 50-year-old man and a 70-year-old man were confirmed dead, National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) director Vasiti…
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