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Two dead as cyclone levels Fiji villages World December 19, 2020 SUVA, Fiji: Super cyclone Yasa flattened entire villages as it tore through Fiji, aid agencies said on Friday, with a baby among two confirmed deaths and rescue workers racing to the worst-hit communities. Yasa made landfall late on Thursday as a top-of-the-scale Category Five cyclone, lashing Fiji’s second-largest island, Vanua Levu. Climate change has made cyclones stronger and more frequent, with Yasa the third maximum-strength storm to batter the Pacific island nation in five years. It triggered floods, landslides and bl...

Fiji issued a national state of natural disaster overnight as Cyclone Yasa made landfall. Flights were cancelled, those in low-lying areas were told to evacuate to higher ground and everyone was ordered to shelter indoors. The South Pacific archipelago spans more than 300 islands and is home to roughly 880,000 people. Tropical Cyclone Yasa heads towards Fiji on December 15.(AP) The storm reached Fiji as a top-of-the-scale Category Five storm overnight. The eye of the slow-moving cyclone took around four hours to cross Fiji's second-largest island - Vanua Levuross - late on Thursday, triggerin...

Super cyclone levels Fiji villages 865 villages as it tore through Fiji, aid agencies said Friday, with one person reported dead as rescue workers raced to the worst-hit communities in isolated areas of Pacific island nation. Yasa made landfall late Thursday as a top-of-the-scale Category Five cyclone, lashing Fiji’s second-largest island, Vanua Levu, with wind gusts of up to 345 kilometres an hour (210 miles an hour). The storm triggered floods, landslides and blackouts before moving out to sea early Friday, where it rapidly weakened to a Category Three system. Zalim Hussein of Savusavu, a...

Super cyclone Yasa levels Fiji villages The human cost of Yasa could have been worse had it not landed in the sparsely populated Bau province. By Leon Lord December 18, 2020 03:04 GMT Super cyclone Yasa flattened entire villages as it tore through Fiji, aid agencies said Friday, with one person reported dead as rescue workers raced to the worst-hit communities in isolated areas of Pacific island nation. Yasa made landfall late Thursday as a top-of-the-scale Category Five cyclone, lashing Fiji's second-largest island, Vanua Levu, with wind gusts of up to 345 kilometres an hour (210 miles an ho...

The Straits Times Villages flattened, baby killed as super cyclone hits Fiji A man working on a damaged house in Bua province, Fiji, in the aftermath of Cyclone Yasa yesterday. Yasa made landfall at the Pacific Island nation on Thursday as a Category Five cyclone. It triggered floods, landslides and blackouts before moving out to sea, where it weakened to a Category Three system.PHOTOS: REUTERS Vanua Levu, Fiji's second-largest island, was inundated by the storm. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said two deaths had been confirmed - a 45-year-old man and a three-month-old baby - and he expects...