"The water is gradually rising," social worker Wai Hun Aung told AFP from Sittwe. "The schools, which are designated as cyclone shelters... are not strong shelters that can withstand the winds of a cyclone. "The wind started about 8:30 this morning and it's getting stronger," a Rohingya community leader in the Kyaukphyu displacement camp told AFP. "We are in a panic because we don't have enough cyclone shelters here," Saint Martin's resident Jahangir Sarwar, 23, told AFP by phone. Cyclone Mocha is the most powerful storm to hit Bangladesh since Cyclone Sidr, Azizur Rahman, the head of Bangladesh's Meteorological Department, told AFP.

Source: The Times May 14, 2023 14:02 UTC