Survivors wandered through streets littered with debris, searching for water and shelter, after Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods Saturday when it hit Mayotte, the poorest territory of France and, by extension, the European Union. French President ...

Local authorities said the cyclone, which made landfall with wind speeds above 140 mph, devastated several “shantytowns” across the island.

Officials fear hundreds of people could be dead as a result of the cyclone, which ravaged France’s poorest department.