According to The Daily Star, storm surges caused by a powerful cyclone flooded the port city of Sittwe in Myanmar on Sunday.
Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, saw flooding in certain areas, while gusts as strong as 130 mph tore off tin roofs and toppled a communications tower.
Al Jazeera stated that although local media in Myanmar said a guy died when a tree fell on him, rescue agencies in Myanmar claimed two people died in a landslide.
The largest storm to strike the Bay of Bengal in more than ten years swept into the beach town of Sittwe, turning its streets into rivers.
According to Myanmar’s military information office, the storm in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, and Gwa townships destroyed homes, electrical transformers, cell phone towers, boats, and lampposts. It said that the storm also destroyed sports facilities in the Coco Islands, which are located 425 kilometers (264 miles) southwest of Yangon, the biggest city in the nation.
The remains of a couple who were buried after a landslide brought on by heavy rain struck their home in Tachileik township were found, according to a rescue team from the country’s eastern Shan state, which made the announcement on its Facebook page.
According to Tin Nyein Oo, a volunteer at Sittwe shelters, more than 4,000 of Sittwe’s 300,000 citizens were evacuated to neighboring towns, and more than 20,000 others are taking refuge in strong structures like monasteries, pagodas, and schools situated on the city’s hills.
According to the India Meteorological Department, “Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Mocha’ weakened into a severe cyclonic storm over Myanmar.”
According to the statement, the system is still deteriorating and will eventually develop into a cyclonic storm in the coming hours.
A crowded collection of refugee settlements in low-lying neighboring Bangladesh were also spared by Mocha.
The Daily Star stated that Rohingya refugees in densely crowded camps in the Cox’s Bazar region of southeast Bangladesh, where officials relocated over 300,000 people to safer regions before the storm arrived, hunkered down inside their shack-like dwellings.
