TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Cyclone Mocha began to crash ashore at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Sunday, Bangladesh's weather office said, uprooting trees and bringing driving rain to a region home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees.
Packing winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour Mocha hit between Cox's Bazar, where nearly one million Rohingya refugees live in camps largely made up of flimsy shelters, and Myanmar's Sittwe, the office said.The US Joint Typhoon Warning Center earlier said Mocha was packing winds up to 140 knots, or 259 kph, equivalent to a category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
'In Bangladesh, authorities have banned Rohingya refugees from constructing concrete homes, fearing it may incentivize them to settle permanently rather than return to Myanmar, which they fled five years ago following a brutal military crackdown.The camps are generally slightly inland, but most of them are built on hillsides, exposing them to the threat of landslides.Forecasters expect the cyclone to bring a deluge of rain, which can trigger landslips.
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