In preparation for gusty winds that could exceed 250 kilometres per hour (155 miles per hour) in the highlands, authorities hoisted the violet-level alert, indicating imminent danger, at 6:00 am (0200 GMT), putting all 870,000 inhabitants, including the emergency services, on strict lockdown. “We will have a difficult and dangerous Monday”. “We’re into the hard part,” prefect Jerome Filippini told France Inter. Residents told to stay indoors authorities set up health camps in anticipation of floods It had previously said that Belal is not, however, expected to become an intense tropical cyclone. “The eye of the storm is passing over the Reunion Island, starting from the northern part,” the meteorological service said in its latest public bulletin. SAINT REUNION: Hundreds of thousands of people on France’s Reunion Island were confined to their homes on Monday, as authorities issued the highest alert for a potentially devastating storm.Ĭyclone Belal hit the French Indian Ocean island on Monday, moving in from the northwest packing “extreme winds”, according to Meteo-France. Heavy flooding hit the Indian Ocean island nation as a tropical cyclone approached it after battering the French overseas territory of Reunion.-AFP MAHEBOURG: Fishing boats are moored on the shore flooded with debris brought by high tides during Cyclone Belal in Mauritius, on Monday.
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