Vanuatu Declares State of Emergency After ‘Monster’ Cyclone
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Vanuatu’s government declared a nationwide state of emergency after Cyclone Pam tore through the South Pacific archipelago, leaving at least eight people dead and severing communications with more remote islands.
“This was a cyclone that flattened houses and, unfortunately, to find missing people and those who are unaccounted for, it is going to take a huge search and rescue effort,” Chloe Morrison, a World Vision emergency communications officer, said by phone from the capital, Port Vila. “Connections have been down here, so we haven’t had any reports in from the outlying islands either.”