Category 5 Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar, Bangladesh

By Agence France-Presse

May 14, 2023 2:57 pm

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 kilometers (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, the office said.

A man rides his a bicycle in an almost empty street in Kyauktaw in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 14, 2023, ahead of the expected landfall of Cyclone Mocha. AFP PHOTO

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