WELLINGTON: New Zealand's prime minister on Sunday warned residents to hunker down and prepare an evacuation plan as a cyclone began pummeling the northern tip of the country.

Cyclone "Gabrielle" is forecast to envelop the upper half of the North Island over a 48-hour period from Sunday evening, two weeks after parts of the same region experienced devastating flooding.

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