Storm surges whipped up by a powerful cyclone moving inland from the Bay of Bengal inundated the Myanmar port city of Sittwe on Saturday, with winds of up to 210 kph (130 mph) ripping away tin roofs and bringing down a communications tower.
Some 400,000 people were evacuated in Myanmar and low-lying neighboring Bangladesh ahead of Cyclone Mocha making landfall, as authorities and aid agencies scrambled to avert heavy casualties from one of the strongest storms to hit the region in recent years.
Communication networks in Rakhine had been disrupted after the cyclone made landfall, the UN and local media said. In Bangladesh, where authorities moved around 300,000 people to safer areas before the storm hit, Rohingya refugees inside densely populated camps in the Cox's Bazar in the south east of the country hunkered down inside their ramshackle homes.
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