Cyclone Harold flattens homes, brings injuries in Fiji

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Fiji's Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama asks people to stay indoors as tropical cyclone batters the country

Cyclone Harold, its strength ranked in the highest category of five, passed over Fiji’s south at about midday, levelling homes and snapping communications links in the archipelago, which has adopted curbs on movement to rein in the virus.

Flooded streets, wild winds and ruined buildings on the country’s main island home to Suva featured in unverified video images and photographs circulated on social media. The ferocious storm has cut a path through the Pacific, which is already on high alert for an outbreak of the flu-like virus that has infected 1.4 million people globally and killed 82,000.

 

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無事に😭 お願いします!

The World is really trying to tell us to get real guys

Talking about flying debris while standing in an exposed porch 🙄

Looks like they are outdoors now too

Now they can neither stay indoors (with no roof) nor outdoors (with corona danger).

Ouch. ☹️ The outdoors came indoors for that poor homeowner.

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