Several thousand people may have been killed, Mayotte prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville told told Mayotte La 1ere, a local broadcaster, on Sunday.

Separately, French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said it could “take days and days” to establish an exact death toll, as he spoke with journalists on his arrival in Mayotte where he is holding talks with the authorities.

Cyclone Chido was a category 4 storm that brought winds in excess…