It is the most powerful cyclone of the last ten years. Cyclone Mocha, which swept through part of the Bay of Bengal on Sunday May 14 and left, according to a latest report, still provisional – at least 41 dead – in several villages in the state of Arakan in the west of the Burma. As communications are restored in the area, hitherto cut off from the world, the local media fear a much heavier toll and count several hundred missing, the majority in Burmese coastal villages sheltering internally displaced Rohingyas.
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