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Mayotte residents plead for water, food and other aid as Macron visits cyclone-devastated island

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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte to survey Cyclone Chido’s destruction.

“We are without water, without electricity, there is nowhere to go because everything is demolished,” a security agent tells Macron .

At least 31 people have died and more than 2,000 people were injured, more than 200 critically, French authorities said.

The cyclone devastated entire neighborhoods as many people ignored warnings, thinking the storm wouldn’t be so extreme.

Signs of the disaster and its impact were everywhere.

Mayotte voted to remain part of France in a 1974 referendum as the rest of the islands became the independent nation of Comoros .

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77

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79

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65

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informal

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English

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44

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short-lived

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