A 49-year-old man has drowned and five people are missing after Cyclone Ana hit Fiji over the weekend.The force of Ana took many in the country by surpriseDisaster authorities said a three-year-old boy is among those missing in floodwaters.
The other four were fishermen who had gone out earlier in the week as the storm developed, according to local media. While the category two storm is the first cyclone of 2021 to hit the country, the force took many by surprise. ABC correspondent Lice Movono, who lives in the capital Suva, said the intensity of the cyclone was unexpected.
"It was a huge surprise to all of us, particularly given we are used to category four and five storms … it was unrelenting the rain and the wind," she told ABC's Pacific Beat.Before the storm hit, the Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama issued a pointed warning on Facebook.as we've seen before, it's the storms we don't expect that can strike the hardest."The storm cut through the northern and eastern parts of Viti Levu with winds of up to 140 kilometres per hour.
Awful
Poor Fiji...always being hit, my heart goes out to the beautiful people.