Half-million evacuated before cyclone
Updated On: 14 May, 2023 08:14 AM IST | Agencies
Refugees camp in path of storm
Rohingya refugees who were evacuated to safety. Pic/PTI
Authorities in Bangladesh on Saturday launched a massive evacuation campaign to relocate close to half a million people along the southeastern coastlines as a “very dangerous” tropical cyclone is expected to make landfall in the country, threatening a Rohingya refugee camp, the world’s largest.
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“Cyclone Mocha is coming. We have kept the cyclone centres and taken all types of preparations to tackle it,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. Meteorologists said the storm’s path is set to affect Bangladesh’s southeastern border district of Cox’s Bazar where over a million Rohingya refugees live.
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