Families seek shelter in Myanmar as Cyclone Mocha approaches

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SITTWE (Myanmar) — Hundreds sought shelter and higher ground in western Myanmar on Friday (May 12) ahead of a looming cyclone forecast to bring high winds and a storm surge to the eastern Bay of Bengal.

Cyclone Mocha is predicted to make landfall on Sunday near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, according to India's meteorological office, packing winds of up to 175km per hour.

Myanmar's junta authorities were supervising evacuations from coastal villages along the Rakhine coast, according to state media, which did not say how many people had been moved.FLOODS, LANDSLIDES The cyclone looked set to pass near sprawling camps in Bangladesh home to almost one million Rohingya refugees who fled a Myanmar military crackdown in 2017.

 

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