Thousands feared dead after cyclone slams into Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte

Thousands were feared dead on Monday, after Cyclone Chido tore through Mayotte, a French Indian Ocean territory, leaving swaths of the population cut off.

Wooden beams from collapsed buildings litter the landscape, entangled with fallen branches and corrugated metal and plastic in video taken on the archipeligo which sits around 500 miles off the southeast coast of Africa, between Madagascar and Mozambique.

Coconut trees bend under the gusts of wind, their tall, towering trunks swaying against the gray sky. The extent of the destruction can be seen from above — a chaotic, colorful blanket of scattered debris from homes and buildings.

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