Dhaka: Cyclonic storm ‘Mocha’ is hitting the coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Due to the cyclone, it is raining heavily and winds are blowing at a speed of 209 kilometers per hour. Due to this, the areas around the Bay of Bengal are also getting flooded. Nearly 1,000 people were rescued by rescue workers on Monday after the powerful cyclone Mocha made landfall in Myanmar, inundating areas near the country’s west coast with up to 12 feet of seawater. Due to the cyclone, communication blackout has been cut in this part of Myanmar and hundreds of people have been injured. Although the damage caused by the cyclone and the number of dead is not yet known.
A leader of the Rakhine Youth’s Philanthropic Association in Sittwe, who requested not to be named, said that more than 700 people were injured in incidents caused by the strong winds, and some 20,000 people took shelter in places like monasteries, pagodas, and schools in Sittwe. took refuge in places.
He told that seawater has entered the low-lying areas in the coastal region after Cyclone Mocha made landfall in Rakhine State on Sunday. Residents are taking shelter on rooftops and upper floors of houses while immediate rescue operations are being hampered by strong winds and gusts of wind.
The leader of the rescue group said that the storm had weakened slightly at 4 pm yesterday but the water did not recede. Most of the people spent the night on the roofs and on the upper floors of their houses. Strong winds continued to blow throughout the night.
He told that about 5 feet of water remained filled in the flood-affected areas till Monday morning, but the rescue work continued after the winds calmed down and the sun came out. He appealed to civic organizations and authorities to send aid and evacuate residents.
Earlier, due to the cyclone, it was reported that 3 people died in Myanmar and many people were injured in neighboring Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh has survived to a great extent from the effect of this cyclone.
Myanmar’s Meteorological Department said Cyclone Mocha caused winds of up to 209 kilometers per hour near Sittwe town in Rakhine state on Sunday afternoon. The storm first passed through Bangladesh’s St. Martin’s Island, causing significant damage and casualties there. Earlier in the day, several mobile towers were uprooted due to strong winds, which cut off communication links in most of the area.
Media reports in Rakhine said rains caused by the cyclone flooded roads, trapping people in their homes in low-lying areas.
Myanmar’s military information office said the storm damaged houses, power transformers, cell phone towers, boats and lampposts in the towns of Sittwe, Kyukpyu, and Gwa. It said the storm also caused roofs to collapse on sports complexes on Koko Island, about 425 km southwest of the country’s largest city, Yangon.
In Sittwe, which has a population of 300,000 people, more than 4,000 people have been brought in from other cities and more than 20,000 have taken refuge in monasteries, pagodas, and high-altitude areas of the city, said Tin Nyan Oo, who is working at shelters in Sittwe. Have taken shelter in sturdy buildings like schools located in
Lin Lin, president of a local charitable foundation, said there was not enough food at the shelters in Sittwe after more people arrived than expected.
Titan Mitra, the representative of the United Nations Development Program in Myanmar, tweeted that Mocha has knocked. 20 lakh people are in danger. Loss and damage is expected to be widespread. We are prepared to deal with this and will need to provide uninterrupted assistance to all affected communities. Several people were reported killed in Myanmar on Sunday due to strong winds and rain.
Authorities in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, which came in the path of Cyclone Mocha, had earlier said that they had evacuated thousands of people to safety. Azizur Rahman, director of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department in Dhaka, said that by afternoon, however, it appeared that the storm had moved east, leaving most of the country untouched. He told reporters that the risk level in Bangladesh has come down to a great extent.
It is said that by 8.30 am Indian time, the remnants of cyclonic storm ‘Mocha’ weakened into a well-marked low-pressure area over northeast Myanmar. The Depression (remnant of Cyclone “Mocha”) over Myanmar moved southeastwards and marked a well-marked low-pressure area over Northeast Myanmar & neighborhood today, 15th May 2023 at 0830 IST (IST). Weakened in Well Marked Low-Pressure Area). The system is likely to weaken into a low-pressure area during the next few hours. This is the last bulletin of this system.
