Fiji reports 4 deaths due to tropical cyclone Yasa ANI | Updated: Dec 19, 2020 13:09 IST
Suva [Fiji], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Fiji has reported four deaths in total as of Saturday as a result of the tropical cycloneYasa which battered the island nation over the past two days.
According to a statement by Fiji s National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) on Saturday, the latest cases are a 50-year-old man from the western side of Viti Levu, the main island, and another person from Ba also in one of the provinces in the western side of the main island.
This is in addition to the two cases that were confirmed dead by the National Disaster Management Office on Friday.
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Buildings were ruined in the Qalitu District in Savusavu s Vunivesi Village.
The clean-up from the destructive Tropical Cyclone Yasa has begun, with the New Zealand Government and humanitarian organisations providing support. But it will take months for the Pacific Island nation to recover. “It’s going to be quite a long road ahead,” said Unicef Pacific’s chief of communications Cate Heinrich, who is based in Suva. “There’ll be families that are really in need [of] immediate support [as well as support] over the coming weeks . and months.” The category 5 cyclone tore through Fiji on Thursday night wreaking havoc on a number of villages. Ninety-three thousand people were in the path of the storm, those in the northern provinces, especially Vanua Levu, experienced the worst conditions.
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Australia has pledged emergency humanitarian relief for Fiji after a powerful cyclone hit the Pacific nation.
Yasa, one of the strongest cyclones recorded in the Pacific, made landfall on the northern island of Vanua Leva on Thursday evening, killing at least four people and destroying scores of homes.
It brought torrential rain and gusts up to 345km/h to the archipelago, which was already ravaged by Tropical Cyclone Harold in April.
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On Saturday, Fiji s National Disaster Management Office director Vasiti Soko told reporters in Suva two men, aged 50 and 70, were killed by debris whipped up by the winds.