The road to the city was littered with trees, pylons and power cable, with vehicles full of rescuers and locals trying to reach the town. theSun theSundaily disaster CycloneMocha Myanmar Bangladesh
Local residents check the damages after Cyclone Mocha’s crashed ashore, in Kyauktaw in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 14, 2023. AFPPIX: Tens of thousands of people in a major Myanmar port city were cut off from contact on Monday after a cyclone tore through the west of the country and neighbouring Bangladesh.
Communications with state capital Sittwe, home to around 150,000 people, which bore the brunt of the storm according to cyclone trackers, were still down on Monday. Junta-affiliated media reported that the storm had put hundreds of base stations that connect mobile phones to networks out of action in Rakhine state.
On Bangladesh's Shah Porir Dwip island residents began repairing damaged homes, searching through debris and retrieving scattered possessions.Secretary of the disaster management ministry Kamrul Hasan told AFP on Monday that no one had died in the cyclone. Cyclone Mocha is the most powerful storm to hit Bangladesh since Cyclone Sidr, Azizur Rahman, the head of Bangladesh's Meteorological Department, told AFP.
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