Cyclone Mocha slammed into southeastern Bangladesh coastlines shortly after midday today making its way through the Naf River that divided Bangladesh and Myanmar, uprooting trees and tearing the roofs off buildings and forcing half a million people to take refuge in safe shelters.
“The cyclone made its landfall but its main brunt largely spared Bangladesh as it turned to eastwards at the last moments and headed towards northern Myanmar coast,” Bangladesh’s met office director Azizur Rahmann said.
But officials and residents in Bangladesh’s southeastern coastlines said the severe storm scattered flimsy homes and uprooted trees while meteorologists predicted the remnants of the storm to cause flooding in low-lying areas.
According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), Cox’s Bazar district was supposed to be affected severely by Cyclone Mocha but the costal district witnessed very little destruction as the strong part of the cyclone hit the Myanmar.বিস্তারিত