Cyclone Mocha toll in Myanmar’s Rakhine state at least 41: locals
- 16-May-2023
SITTWE, Myanmar: The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar’s Rakhine state rose to at least 41 on Tuesday, local leaders told AFP. “We can confirm there are 17 deaths,” Karlo, the administrator of Bu Ma village told an AFP reporter at the scene, after Cyclone Mocha struck on Sunday. The number is on top of a […]
Myanmar port city cut off after deadly Cyclone Mocha
- 15-May-2023
KYAUKTAW, Myanmar: Tens of thousands of people in a major Myanmar port city were cut off from contact on Monday after a deadly cyclone tore through the west of the country and neighbouring Bangladesh. Cyclone Mocha made landfall between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Myanmar’s Sittwe packing winds of up to 195 kilometres (120 miles) […]
Category 5 Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar, Bangladesh
- 14-May-2023
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 kilometres (120 miles) per hour Mocha hit between Cox’s Bazar, where nearly one million […]
Cyclone Mocha heads to Bangladesh, Myanmar coasts
- 13-May-2023
DHAKA: Cyclone Mocha, a powerful storm packing winds of up to 175 kph (109 mph) barrelled towards the coasts of eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar on Saturday, threatening around a million Rohingya refugees and others living in low-lying areas. Thousands of people in both countries have already fled to safer areas ahead of the storm. Cyclone […]
Bangladesh evacuations ahead of ‘very severe’ Cyclone Mocha
- 13-May-2023
TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Saturday 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 175 kilometres per hour (109 miles per hour) and […]