AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Cyclone "Gabrielle" swept away roads, inundated homes and left 225,000 people without power in New Zealand on Tuesday, prompting the government to declare a national state of emergency.

High winds and driving rain lashed the country's populous North Island, in what Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called the "most significant weather event New Zealand has seen in this century."

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