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Assessing the damage in Vanuatu

March 17, 2015 12:00 am • Last Updated: March 23, 2015 1:51 pm

A boy kicks a ball through the ruins of his family home as his father, at back, picks through the debris Monday in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam. Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale said Monday that the cyclone that hammered the tiny South Pacific archipelago over the weekend was a "monster" that has destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital and has forced the nation to start anew. Lonsdale said the latest information he had was that six people were confirmed dead and 30 were injured.

A boy kicks a ball through the ruins of his family home as his father, at back, picks through the debris Monday in Port Vila, Vanuatu, in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam. Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale said Monday that the cyclone that hammered the tiny South Pacific archipelago over the weekend was a "monster" that has destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital and has forced the nation to start anew. Lonsdale said the latest information he had was that six people were confirmed dead and 30 were injured.

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