Cyclone Chido roared through the island nation of Mayotte on Monday with 140-mile-per-hour winds. Thousands are feared dead in the French Indian Ocean territory, though France’s interior minister said it could be “days and days” before an exact death toll is known. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.
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