With Cyclone Harold strengthening, Vanuatu is still recovering from Cyclone Pam which hit the impoverished Pacific nation in 2015. AFP/JEREMY PIPERWELLINGTON: A deadly cyclone bearing down on the Pacific nation of Vanuatu has intensified into a Category Five super storm, generating destructive winds and"phenomenal" seas, forecasters said on Monday .
Officials warned residents in the nation of 300,000 to expect flash flooding and said ships should stay in port or risk facing huge swells on the high seas.An inter-island ferry in the Solomons Islands ignored weather warnings as cyclone Harold was gathering strength late last week and 27 people were washed off its decks into the sea.Solomons police said late Sunday that the bodies of five passengers from the MV Taimareho had been recovered and the search would resume the next day.
The ferry set off from Honiara for Malaita island on Thursday night packed with more than 700 people as part of a government evacuation programme in response to the coronavirus crisis. It flattened Port Vila, killed 11 people and left a swathe of destruction that the World Bank estimated wiped out almost two-thirds of Vanuatu's economic capacity.
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