Storm surges whipped up by a powerful cyclone inundated the Myanmar port metropolis of Sittwe on Sunday, reported The Daily Star.

Parts of Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, have been flooded, whereas winds of as much as 130 miles per hour ripped away tin roofs and introduced down a communications tower.

Rescue providers in Myanmar stated two individuals have been killed in a landslide, whereas native media reported the demise of a person in Myanmar after a tree fell on him, reported Al Jazeera.

Streets in Sittwe have been become rivers as the largest storm to hit the Bay of Bengal in additional than a decade surged by the seaside city.

Myanmar’s navy data workplace stated the cyclone had damaged houses, electrical transformers, cell phone towers, boats and lampposts in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu and Gwa townships. It stated the storm additionally tore roofs off of sport buildings on the Coco Islands, about 425km (264 miles) southwest of the nation’s largest metropolis, Yangon.

A rescue crew from the nation’s japanese Shan state introduced on its Facebook web page that that they had recovered the our bodies of a pair who have been buried when a landslide attributable to heavy rain hit their home in Tachileik township.

More than 4,000 of Sittwe’s 300,000 residents have been evacuated to different cities and greater than 20,000 individuals are sheltering in sturdy buildings corresponding to monasteries, pagodas and colleges situated on the town’s highlands, stated Tin Nyein Oo, who’s volunteering in shelters in Sittwe, reported Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department reported that “Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Mocha’ weakened into a severe cyclonic storm over Myanmar.”

The system is constant the weakening development and can turn into a cyclonic storm in the course of the subsequent few hours, it added.

Moreover, Mocha spared a densely-populated cluster of refugee camps in low-lying neighbouring Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh, the place authorities moved round 300,000 individuals to safer areas earlier than the storm hit, Rohingya refugees inside densely-populated camps within the Cox’s Bazar within the southeast of the nation hunkered down inside their ramshackle properties, reported The Daily Star.