Substantial damage has been reported and many areas are inaccessible. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Substantial damage has been reported and many areas are inaccessible.It unleashed winds of up to 210kmh and ripped roofs off homes, and brought a storm surge that inundated the state capital Sittwe.
“We are scaling up our response effort to provide critical relief supplies like rice and tarps to Rohingya communities affected by Cyclone Mocha as we are able,” Partners said in another post on Twitter. Before the storm made landfall on Sunday about 400,000 people were evacuated in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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