As the Bay of Bengal's first cyclone of the year approached on Thursday, thousands of volunteers ordered evacuations in the Bangladesh-Myanmar area.
YANGON - Myanmar and Bangladesh deployed thousands of volunteers and ordered evacuations from low-lying areas on Thursday as the Bay of Bengal's first cyclone of the year approached.
The office predicted a storm surge of between 1.5 and two metres for the low-lying coastal region, which on the Bangladeshi side is home to sprawling camps hosting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees. "As it is located at the entrance to the river, our village can't even resist a small storm," he told AFP.Ahmadul Haque, director of Bangladesh's Cyclone Preparedness Programme, said they had deployed 8,600 volunteers in Cox's Bazar and another 3,400 Rohingya volunteers in the refugee camps.
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