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One dead as cyclone skims France's Reunion island

Cyclone Bejisa also left 15 people injured and uprooted trees, flooded and damaged dozens of homes and severed power and water supplies.

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One person died and 15 were injured after a cyclone packing winds of 150 kilometres (95 miles) an hour brushed by the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, officials said on Friday, reports AFP.

A red alert asking residents to remain indoors was lifted on Friday.

But the cyclone caused widespread damage uprooting trees, damaging and flooding dozens of homes and severing power and water supplies.

The sole death from Thursday's cyclone Bejisa was an elderly person found outdoors, La Reunion's top government official Jean-Luc Marx said.

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