The mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city wore a T-shirt saying “help us, we are dying” while giving a television interview about the struggling relief efforts in the US territory.

Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, made the appearance on CNN voicing criticism that aid is not being distributed fast enough throughout the island, which has been devastated by Hurricane Maria.

The majority of the territory's 3.5 million inhabitants are still without electricity and clean drinking water after the hurricane hit more than a week ago.