Bangladesh evacuations ahead of ‘very severe’ Cyclone Mocha
Local residents arrive to take shelter at a monastery in Sittwe town in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Friday, ahead of Cyclone Mocha’s expected landfall of on Sunday. – AFP pic, May 13, 2023.
BANGLADESH today moved to evacuate Rohingya refugees from “risky areas” to community centres and hundreds fled an island as the most powerful cyclone in nearly two decades barrelled towards the country and neighbouring Myanmar, officials said. Cyclone Mocha was packing winds of up to 175kph and meteorological officials in Dhaka classed it as “very severe”, with their Indian counterparts calling it “extremely severe”.
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