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Through the cloud cover, damaged houses. [Fiji One]
Campbell Cooney, Liv casben Last Updated: 17 hours 32 minutes ago
The death toll from a cyclone that hit Fiji has risen to three after emergency authorities confirmed two more deaths.
The body of a man who disappeared near the northern town of Labasa was recovered by police yesterday.
Another man from the northern island of Rabi was also confirmed dead Friday after a tree fell on his house during the cyclone.
Fiji's National Disaster Management Office says the 49 year old man drowned as he tried to cross a river on the island of Vanua Levu.
It is thought he had been leaving for work to perform essential duties because of the cyclone.
The office says the focus is now on getting ration supplies to the hardest hit islands.
Its acting director, Pajiliai Dobui, says it will be some time before destroyed crops are replenished.
Pajiliai Dobui says the northern parts of the Lau and Lomaiviti island groups were the worst hit.
Earlier a woman drowned at the weekend while trying to save family members caught in pounding waves off the coast of the second largest island Vanua Levu.
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