Emergency workers are expecting bad news when communication lines finally open in Vanuatu after the fury of Cyclone Harold.
The slow-moving category five Cyclone Harold, with winds topping 230 kilometres an hour, continued to batter remote islands in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu overnight.The category 5 cyclone is now continuing to FijiBut the extent of damage was not clear, because the storm brought down phone networks.
Olivia Finau from the Vanuatu Red Cross Society said they were preparing for bad news when communication lines were restored. "It is a big worry, because it is a category five. We are expecting a lot of damage to some parts of the islands up north," Ms Finau said.Red Cross tweets video of Cyclone Harold hitting north Vanuatu hard
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