At least 11 people were killed after a cyclone slammed into Mayotte, the most intense storm to hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago north of Madagascar in nearly a century, French weather forecasters and authorities said on Sunday. Cyclone Chido swept through Mayotte overnight, Meteo-France said, bringing winds of more than 200 kilometres an hour (124 miles an hour) and damaging makeshift housing, government buildings and a hospital. “For the toll, it’s going to be complicated, because Mayotte is a Muslim land where the dead are buried within 24 hours,” a French interior ministry official said.
