Rescuers were still struggling Tuesday to reach many hard-hit by Pam islands, the winds exceeded 300 km / h Friday and Saturday.
While some are still cut off communications and reconnaissance flights reveal houses destroyed, devastated forests and damaged infrastructure, international charitable NGOs are particularly worried about Tanna, who took the brunt of the cyclone.
While experiencing significant damage, a Reuters reporter who visited this island where 29,000 people live, located about 200 km from the capital, Port Vila, has been observed that people generally had survived by taking shelter in concrete buildings such as schools and churches.
"People have taken shelter in school buildings. We help each other," he told Reuters an inhabitant of 67, Ropate VUSO, Tanna. "We are short of food, water, shelter and electricity. There is no communication, we expect MPs and (...) the President, but for now, no one comes."
The figure of four people in the main city of the island circulated without it being confirmed.
A reconnaissance flight over the island of Erromango, populated by 2,000 inhabitants and located north of Tanna, revealed there too enormous damage, said the director of Oxfam for Vanuatu, Colin van Collett Rooyen.
"We found that some villages were damaged in 70, 80 or 90%. A village was damaged 100%," he has said.
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