TANNA, Vanuatu: Sweden’s Foreign Ministry says a Swedish national has been killed in the cyclone-ravaged Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

Ministry spokeswoman Victoria Bell on Tuesday said “we can confirm that a Swedish man in his 80s has died.”

She said the circumstances of the man’s death are unclear and the ministry was trying to get more information.

Bell said the man, who wasn’t identified by the ministry, had emigrated from Sweden.

Meanwhile, residents of Tanna, the southern Vanuatu island, said they were running out of food and basic supplies, after the cyclone wreaked widespread devastation.

Relief workers were still battling to reach many of the islands pummelled by Cyclone Pam’s gusts of more than 300 kph on Friday and Saturday.