A handout imaged obtained on 21 February 2016 shows scenes of Tropical Cyclone Winston’s destruction in Ba, Fiji.
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Desperately needed aid has reached remote islands and coastal villages in Fiji left devastated after a powerful cyclone killed at least 29 people.
“We are expecting it to rise but we’re hoping it’s going to rise by a very small number”.
“If Winston does hit the North Island directly it will not be as a tropical cyclone, nor would it be on a storm scale anywhere close to what Fiji had”, it said.
Stills from the New Zealand Defence Force released on Monday, February 22, 2016 show the extensive damage inflicted by Cyclone Winston when it hit Yacata Island, Fiji on Saturday, February 20, 2016.
“Only the rainwater we’re just collecting that for the safety of the children”, she says.
Phone communications have been rapidly restored in many areas but in other areas the damage was severe and would take longer to fix, Perrin said.
Fiji, an archipelago collectively about the size of New Jersey, lies in the South Pacific Ocean some 1,800 miles from Australia’s east coast.
While handing over the emergency humanitarian aid to Cathy Wong, national president of the Fiji Red Cross Society, Gu Yu, charge d’affaires of the Chinese embassy in Fiji said China sympathizes with the Fijian people on their sufferings and will do the utmost to help the Fijian people rebuild their homes.
The global airport at Nadi also reopened yesterday, allowing worldwide tourists caught up in the disaster to return home. This leaves those living on the remote islands without shelter, food, safe drinking water and even the tools and materials to rebuild their shattered lives.
He said officials also have fears about nearby Taveuni Island, home to about 12,000 people, because they’ve managed to have only limited contact with people there.
A survivor of Cyclone Winston has described the destruction and devastation in Fiji after the terrifying storm.
British student Frazer Diver, who travelled to Fiji on his gap year, said locals looked after him and his friends when they were stranded for two days in the village of Rakiraki in Viti Levu with little food and water.
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New Zealand was sending a plane Monday loaded with “relief supplies and an emergency supply team”, the country’s foreign minister, Murray McCully, told Reuters. “It is our duty to determine their needs and provide them with the support they need as soon as possible”, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said in a press statement.
