The prefect of Mayotte said the death toll could climb. The storm, the equivalent of a Category 3, made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday.

Officials say the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean has suffered extensive damage from Cyclone Chido.

Cyclone Chido, which slammed into the island of Mayotte on Saturday, has killed at least 14 people and caused immense damage to

Tropical Cyclone Chido made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday after causing destruction and killing several people in Mayotte, a French archipelago of about 300,000 people in the Indian Ocean. The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of 115 miles per hour on Sunday morning,

The prefect of Mayotte said it was the worst cyclone to hit Mayotte in 90 years.French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said Saturday night after an emergency meeting in Paris that there were fears that the death toll in Mayotte "will be high."

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -Several hundred people, maybe even thousands, may have been killed by Cyclone Chido in the French archipelago of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, a top local French official said via local media channel Mayotte La 1ere on Sunday.

Cyclone Chido left at least 11 people dead and caused widespread damage in the largely poor French island territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean before making landfall Sunday in Mozambique on the east coast of Africa.

Tropical Cyclone Chido struck southeast Africa, killing "perhaps a few thousand" in France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday and then hitting Mozambique on Sunday, officials said.