{"id":73925,"date":"2024-12-16T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/several-hundred-feared-dead-in-mayotte-cyclone-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:50:24","slug":"several-hundred-feared-dead-in-mayotte-cyclone-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/several-hundred-feared-dead-in-mayotte-cyclone-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Several hundred feared dead in Mayotte cyclone | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are &#8220;starting to die of thirst and hunger&#8221; on the French island territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, <!--more--> a senator says, after a cyclone brought wind speeds of 140mph (225kmh).<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred people are already feared dead &#8211; Mayotte&#8217;s prefect warns the final toll could reach &#8220;close to a thousand or even several thousand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the worst cyclone to hit the islands in 90 years, with waves up to eight metres high.<\/p>\n<p>Mayotte is one of the poorest parts of France &#8211; with many of the 300,000 population living in shanty towns.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are &#8220;starting to die of thirst and hunger&#8221; on the French island territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}