Cyclone Mocha LIVE updates: Deadly storm causes floods, kills 3 in Myanmar
2 min read.Updated: 15 May 2023, 11:53 AM ISTLivemintPremiumCyclone Mocha: Local residents check the damages after Cyclone Mocha's crashed ashore in Myanmar's Rakhine state (AFP)
Cyclone Mocha crumpled cell phone towers, which affected communications in Myanmar
At least three people have been reported dead in Myanmar
Cyclone Mocha on Sunday afternoon made landfall in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The deadly cyclone has killed three and injured several people in the two Asian-pacific countries in less than 24 hours. No casualty has been reported in Bangladesh but destroyed hundreds of makeshift shelters in Cox's Bazar.
Myanmar appears to have borne more direct impact as cyclone flooded streets, blew off roofs, and severed communications in Rakhine state near Sittwe township.
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15 May 2023, 11:53:47 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha weakened into depression in Myanmar
Cyclonic Mocha on Monday weakened into a depression over Myanmar. The system is likely to weaken into well marked Low Pressure Area (LPA) during next few hours, according to IMD.
15 May 2023, 11:48:06 AM IST
Cyclones becoming powerful due to climate change, warn scientists
Scientists have warned that storms are becoming more powerful as the world gets warmer because of climate change.
Cyclones -- the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the Northwest Pacific -- are a regular and deadly menace on the coast of the northern Indian Ocean where tens of millions of people live.
Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta in 2008, killing at least 138,000 people.
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh's southern coast in November 2007, killing more than 3,000 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.
15 May 2023, 11:13:49 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha: Myanmar port city cut off from contact
A major Myanmar port city remained cut off from contact on Monday after a cyclone tore through the west of the country. The road to Sittwe was littered with trees, pylons and power cables.
15 May 2023, 10:36:50 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha: About 1,000 rescued, over 700 injured in Myanmar
Rescuers early Monday evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 meters (12 feet ) deep along western Myanmar's coast because of cyclone Mocha. Strong winds injured more than 700 of about 20,000 people who were sheltering in sturdier buildings at Sittwe, Myanmar.
15 May 2023, 10:05:06 AM IST
Cyclone Myanmar: Internet shutdown in Myanmar
The military in Myanmar has imposed internet shutdowns across parts of the country, including some areas in Rakhine and neighbouring Chin state.
In remote and hilly Chin, which has previously seen heavy fighting between the junta and the resistance, the areas the storm swept through is under a communications blackout since the coup.
15 May 2023, 09:54:14 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha snaps communications network in Myanmar's Rakhine
Cyclone Mocha barrelled into the western coast of Myanmar from the Bay of Bengal yesterday. The strong storm flooded Rakhine's capital of Sittwe and took down at least one communications tower.
According to the United Nations Development Programme's consultant, it was hard to understand the scale of destruction because of ruptured communications in Rakhine.
15 May 2023, 09:49:01 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha largely spared Bangladesh, Myanmar witnessed severe impact
Mocha largely spared the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar, which initially had been in the storm's predicted path. Authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people before the cyclone veered east. Cyclone Mocha did not materialize because it started crossing Bangladesh's coast at low tide, according to the Dhaka-based Jamuna TV station.
However, the ferocious cyclone caused injury to a dozen people on Saint Martin’s Island, while some 300 homes were either destroyed or damaged in Bangladesh.
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Cyclone Mocha began to crash ashore at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on May 14. (AFP)
15 May 2023, 09:32:37 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha: Couple and 1 person dead in Myanmar
At least three deaths were reported in Myanmar. A rescue team said on Facebook that they had recovered the bodies of a couple who were buried when a landslide hit their house in Tachileik township. Local media reported a man was crushed to death when a banyan tree fell on him in Pyin Oo Lwin township in the central Mandalay region.
15 May 2023, 09:28:11 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha: Scenes of damage | Watch
Myanmar’s military information office said the storm had damaged houses, electrical transformers, cell phone towers, boats and lampposts in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, and Gwa townships. It said roofs were torn off buildings on the Coco Islands.
15 May 2023, 09:22:47 AM IST
Cyclone Mocha disrupts communication, floods streets in Myanmar
High winds caused by Cyclone Mocha crumpled cell phone towers, which affected communications in Myanmar. Besides, deep water raced through streets while wind-lashed trees and pulled boards off roofs.
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