NEW DELHI: 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.
The Met Office stated that packing winds of up to 195 kilometres (120 miles) 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.
An alert has been sounded for Cox Bazar seaport, Chattagram and Payra port in Bangladesh as the tropicl cyclone made landfall.
According to experts this storm could be the most ferocious one for thr worlds largest refugee camp, Cox Bazar- makeshift homes of Rohingya’s
The Cyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades predict met department.
Around 500,000 people have been evacuated to safer areas. 1,500 shelters were set up as people from vulnerable areas were moved to safer spots. Fishermen were instructed not to venture into the sea and operations at nearby airports were also closed.