Official Cyclone Mocha death toll in Myanmar rises to 145

Aljazeera
19 May 2023

Official death toll surges as the UN says at least 800,000 people are in need of emergency food aid and other assistance.

NGOs say relief efforts were stalled as they awaited permission from the military to deploy resources to the affected regions [Reuters]

 

At least 145 people were killed when Cyclone Mocha hit the country this week, Myanmar’s ruling military has said.

The impoverished western state of Rakhine bore the brunt of the storm that on Sunday tore down houses, communication towers and bridges with winds of up to 210 kilometres per hour (130 miles per hour), and triggered a storm surge that inundated the state capital Sittwe. 

Cyclone Mocha death toll rises sharply in Myanmar

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Refugee camps housing the displaced Rohingya minority have been destroyed by Cyclone Mocha

At least 145 people are now known to have been killed in Myanmar (Burma) by a powerful cyclone, the country's military rulers have said.

They say most of the victims of Cyclone Mocha that made landfall last Sunday were from the Rohingya minority.

The junta had earlier put the death toll at 21, but local residents told the BBC that at least 40 had died.

Myanmar’s post-coup civilian death toll tops 700

TAIPEI TIMES

AFP, YANGON, Myanmar 

Mon, Apr 12, 2021 page1

A security guard was wounded in a bomb blast outside a military-owned bank in Myanmar’s second-biggest city yesterday morning, as the civilian death toll from the junta’s brutal crackdown on dissent topped more than 700 at the weekend.

The country has been in turmoil since the military removed Burmese State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1.

Myawaddy Bank’s biggest branch in Mandalay was targeted yesterday morning and a security guard was injured in the explosion, local media reported.

A demonstrator carrying a homemade weapon gives the three-finger salute at an anti-coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, yesterday. Photo: EPA-EFE

The bank is one of scores of military-controlled businesses that have faced boycott pressure since the coup, with many customers demanding to withdraw their savings.

Death and despair: Rohingya describe high-seas terror

NEWAGE

Agence France-Presse.
Lhokseumawe, Indonesia
Jun 28,2020

In this photo taken on June 26, 2020, A Rohingya from Myanmar gets her identification photograph taken by Indonesian police at the immigration detention centre in Lhokseumawe, in Indonesia's North Aceh Regency. - AFP photo 

 

A group of Rohingya say they were beaten by traffickers and drank their own urine to stay alive on a perilous four-month journey at sea until their dramatic rescue near the Indonesian coast.

The bedraggled survivors -- about 100 in all, mostly women and children -- described a high-seas horror story that saw them reduced to throwing the dead overboard as their rickety craft drifted thousands of kilometres towards Malaysia.