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The camps at Cox's Bazar are in the path of Cyclone Mocha, which was closing in on the coast of southeastern Bangladesh and Myanmar with wind speeds of up to 135 miles per hour and gusts of up to ...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, October 27, 2023 — A severe cyclonic storm named 'Hamoon' made a fierce landfall at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 24, 2023, leaving a trail of destruction in the ...
Assistant Meteorologist of Cox's Bazar Meteorological Office Abdul Hannan said: “Cyclone Remal is located 360km southwest of Cox's Bazar seaport, with wind speeds up to 130km/h. Landslides may occur ...
Powerful Cyclone Mocha missed the world's largest refugee camp at Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh on Sunday but caused widespread damage to the western Rakhine state capital city of Sittwe in Myanmar.
Bangladeshi volunteers warn people to leave their homes and take shelter ahead of Cyclone Mocha's landfall in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on May 13, 2023. Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/NurPhoto/Getty Images ...
In Cox’s Bazar, more than 200,000 people had been sent to 1,600 shelters. There is capacity to accommodate about 500,000 people, according to district officials. More than a million Rohingya ...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – Climate experts in Bangladesh have expressed concern about massive refugee camps here – some of the largest in the world – being located in an extreme-weather hot ...
It's projected to make landfall on Sunday between Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh and Kyaukpyu in Myanmar. Bangladesh, with more than 160 million people, has prepared more than 1,500 cyclone shelters.
In Cox's Bazar, which hosts the world's largest refugee camp — home to about one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar — strong winds toppled some shelters but it was not hit as badly as ...
Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters. At least six people have been reported dead ...
The flooding and landslides caused by the tropical cyclone destroyed or damaged the shelters of around 40,000 refugees residing in the Cox’s Bazar camps, according to U.N. officials ...
Authorities in Bangladesh had evacuated 750,000 people ahead of the storm. The streets of Cox's Bazar emptied as the cyclone intensified - the skies darkened, the winds picked up pace and the ...