Cyclone Mocha Heads For Myanmar, Bangladesh
Muhammad Irfan Published May 11, 2023 | 05:00 PM
Gwa, Myanmar, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th May, 2023 ) :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.
Cyclone Mocha is forecast to make landfall on Sunday along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, according to India's meteorological office, packing winds of up to 175 kilometres (108 miles) per hour.
The office predicted a storm surge of between two and two and a half metres (6-8 feet) for the low-lying coastal region, which on the Bangladeshi side is home to sprawling camps hosting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees.
Thar Tin Maung, 60, was moved from his village in Myanmar's Rakhine state to the town of Sittwe in preparation for the storm.
"As it is located at the entrance to the river, our village can't even resist a small storm," he told AFP.
"There will be some people who cannot move out from the village and I am worried about them." In nearby Pauktaw town, Kyaw Kyaw Khaing said around two hundred people had arrived to take shelter in community centres and Buddhist monasteries.
"Now were are announcing with a loudspeaker, asking for meal parcels so that we can feed the people who moved to our town," he said.
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.
"Especially, we are alerting the people living on hill-slopes as the cyclone would bring heavy rains, which can trigger landslides," he told AFP.
Bangladesh also banned fishing boats from venturing into the deep sea.
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