Live updates: Fiji faces direct hit from powerful Cyclone Yasa
Cyclone Yasa, with winds at its centre gusting as high as 350km/h, is due to make landfall this evening.
The category five storm is due to strike the province of Bua, on the northern island of Vanua Levu, but a hurricane warning is in force for nearly the whole country.
A state of disaster has already been declared, and a curfew is in effect for the entire country.
The National Disaster Management Office said at least 600,000 people lie in Yasa’s path.
Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said Cyclone Yasa could easily surpass the devastation of 2016’s Cyclone Winston, which killed 44 people, destroyed 40,000 homes and significantly impacted 350,000 people in the country.
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