Cyclone Yasa: Villages flattened as Fiji smashed by Category Five storm
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...