Forecasters expect the cyclone to bring a deluge of rain, which can trigger landslides. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TEKNAF, Bangladesh - Bangladesh on Saturday moved to evacuate Rohingya refugees from “risky areas” to community centres and hundreds fled an island asbarrelled towards the country and neighbouring Myanmar, officials said.
“Cyclone Mocha is the most powerful storm since Cyclone Sidr,” Mr Azizur Rahman, the head of Bangladesh’s Meteorological Department, told AFP. “We live in houses made of tarpaulin and bamboo,” said refugee Enam Ahmed, who lives at the Nayapara camp near the border town of Teknaf.Forecasters expect the cyclone to bring a deluge of rain, which can trigger landslides. Most of the camps are built on hillsides and landslips are a regular phenomenon in the region.
But Bangladesh’s deputy refugee commissioner Shamsud Douza told AFP: “All the Rohingyas in the camps are in risk.”
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