France is rushing rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte after the island group off Africa was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century

The deadliest cyclone in 90 years devastated the French territory, with hundreds feared dead amid a massive rescue operation.

Several hundred people, maybe even thousands, may have been killed by Cyclone Chido in the French archipelago of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, a senior local French official said on Sunday. Zachary Goelman produced this report.