Authorities are warning that the country needs to prepare for the death toll to rise. Read more at straitstimes.com.
on Friday after Cyclone Gabrielle caused chaos, leaving at least eight people dead in the country’s most damaging storm in decades.
“We do need to brace ourselves for the fact that there are likely more fatalities from this across the country. And the true extent of that, we won’t know for a while,” he said. Submerged farms could have an impact on the supply of fruit and vegetables in several regions, he said. Convoys of trucks carrying essential items such as food, water, medicine and fuel are making their way into remote areas, and the defence force is using ships to transport needed items to areas on the east coast.
Ms Collins, her husband and their two children were trapped in their one-storey home in the hard-hit Hawke’s Bay region when the flood waters arrived. In the chaos, one of the children – two-year-old Ivy – was swept away and drowned. Ms Collins said the child “died very quickly”.
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