IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES. Residents evacuated, houses swept away, streets flooded… Cyclone Mocha sweeps through Bangladesh and Burma

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This cyclone is the most powerful for more than ten years in the Bay of Bengal.

They took some things and fled. In Bangladesh and Burma, thousands of people took shelter, Sunday, May 14, before the passage of the powerful cyclone Mocha. Accompanied by strong winds, blowing at nearly 200 km/h, the storm uprooted trees, caused a major tidal surge in coastal areas and washed away sheet metal houses in camps for displaced Rohingyas.

Mocha intensified to the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The Myanmar Red Cross has warned in a statement that it “prepared to respond to a major emergency”. “All the Rohingyas in the camps are in danger”alerted the Deputy Commissioner for Refugees of Bangladesh, Shamsud Douza, while a million Burmese refugees live in the country. Here is the extent of the disaster in photos.

Residents of Sittwe (Burma) prepare to leave the city on May 13, 2023, before Cyclone Mocha hits. (SIPA)

Residents of Sittwe (Burma) have their feet in the water after Cyclone Mocha hit, May 14, 2023. (SIPA)

An electrical transformer swept away by Cyclone Mocha in the canton of Gwa (Burma), May 14, 2023. (SIPA)

Buildings swept away by Cyclone Mocha in Kyaukpyu (Burma), May 14, 2023. (SIPA)

Residents of Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) prepare to leave the city on May 14, 2023, before Cyclone Mocha hits. (ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

A girl sheltered in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh), on May 14, 2023, before the passage of Cyclone Mocha. (ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

A resident of Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) walks in the water after Cyclone Mocha hit on May 14, 2023. (ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

A Bangladeshi woman takes shelter in Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh), on May 14, 2023, before the passage of Cyclone Mocha. (ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)

Residents of Kyauktaw (Burma) flee the city on May 14, 2023, before Cyclone Mocha hits. (SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP)

Wind-blown trees near a house in Kyauktaw, Burma, on May 14, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha hit. (SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP)

Houses are swept away by Cyclone Mocha on May 14, 2023, in Kyauktaw (Burma). (SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP)

Wind-blown trees litter the streets, after Cyclone Mocha hit Kyauktaw, Burma, on May 14, 2023. (SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP)

This market in Teknaf, in the Cox's Bazar region of Bangladesh, did not resist the strong winds of Cyclone Mocha on May 14, 2023. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP)


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