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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sami Quadri

New Zealand’s cyclone death toll rises to 11 as thousands remain missing

The death toll from New Zealand’s cyclone reached 11 on Sunday as thousands of people remained missing after the nation’s most destructive weather event in decades.

Cyclone Gabrielle struck the country’s north on Monday, bringing widespread flooding, landslides and power cuts, and the level of damage has been compared to Cyclone Bola in 1988. That storm was the most destructive on record to hit the nation of five million people.

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