Tropical Cyclone - Fiji Hammered By Severe Cyclone - No Deaths Reported Reuters

Mon Dec 17, 2012 5:03pm EST

(Reuters) - More in comparison with 8,000 people, like unusual tourists, had been evacuated for you to catastrophe room and board while Fiji has been battered by just a serious sultry cyclone, with gusts of wind topping 230kmh (140 mph) plus massive amounts harmful real estate and also resorts.

There were being no reports of casualties as Tropical Cyclone Evan roared on the Pacific region nation on Monday, uprooting palm trees, tearing roofs off of complexes and blowing along strength lines.

A category several storm, your second greatest level, when that hit Fiji, Evan acquired weakened and shifted in relation to 160km (100 miles) southern in the main island connected with Viti Levu through Tuesday morning, the Fiji Metrological Service said. The hurricane was outlook to damage further because it in the direction into cooler lower waters.

Cyclone Evan wiped out at least four men and women while in the islands connected with Samoa last week ahead of setting it has the things on Fiji, which will utilizes travel along with sugar exports. (Reporting by Lincoln Feast inside Wellington; Editing by means of John Mair)