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Vanuatu: Aid teams start arriving after 'monster' cyclone

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Aid teams have started arriving in cyclone-hit Vanuatu, as the scale of the disaster begins to unfold. <br /><br /> The Pacific island paradise is now a scene of devastation, after being hit by Cyclone Pam. <br /><br /> Fuelled by winds of more than 300 kilometres per hour, the storm destroyed everything in its path when it hit on Friday and into Saturday. <br /><br /> One resident, in the capital Port Vila, said her children were terrified.<br /><br /> “They (children) were really scary (scared). They cried and I cried also, but I just have to be strong for them. We are all alive, we survived here,” she said.<br /><br /> Another Port Vila resident added: “It just destroyed our buildings. I (have) never seen such a cyclone like this before.”<br /><br /> Eight people are confirmed dead, but that number is expected to rise as the scale of this disaster – spread across 83 islands – unfolds. <br /><br /> Vanuatu’s president, who was away at a disaster risk conference in Japan, has likened the storm to a “monster.”<br /><br /> For the aid workers and rescue teams, t

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