800,000 people affected by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar: UN
A Rohingya woman carries her baby next to her destroyed house at Basara refugee camp in Sittwe on May 16, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha made a landfall. The death toll from Cyclone Mocha that barrelled through Myanmar has reached 145 in the country, the junta's information team said in a statement on May 19. Photo: AFP
At least 800,000 people in Myanmar need emergency food aid and other assistance after Cyclone Mocha slammed into the conflict-torn country earlier this week, the United Nations said Friday.
"The cyclone left a trail of devastation across Myanmar's Rakhine State, with houses flattened, roads cut off by uprooted trees, hospitals and schools destroyed, and telecommunications and power lines severely disrupted," Anthea Webb, the UN World Food Programme's deputy regional director for Asia and the Pacific, told reporters in Geneva.
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