“We have heard that many people remain missing or may be under the destroyed shelters.” “During this time, the phone network remains unstable, the roads are blocked and at least one concrete bridge was washed away so confirming the numbers is challenging,” Hazlett said. He added that fatality numbers shared online vary significantly and his organization was unable to give a precise breakdown for now – but they expect the number of casualties to rise. That village was totally destroyed by the cyclone and at least 20 people have lost their life there,” he said.Ī man walks past destroyed buildings in Sittwe, in Myanmar's Rakhine state, on May 15, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. “We are unable to say an exact number, but know of one small village we have connected with today where we have provided toilets and hand water pumps in the last year.
There has been “a large-scale loss of life in the camps,” said Brad Hazlett, president of the non-government organization, Partners Relief and Development. It is in these poorly constructed camps that aid agencies fear Cyclone Mocha has hit the hardest. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya remain in Rakhine, mostly confined to camps where authorities place strict controls on their movement. Nearly a million stateless Rohingya members of the persecuted Muslim minority group have crossed into neighboring Bangladesh since 2017, fleeing a brutal and bloody crackdown by Myanmar’s junta. Largely impoverished and isolated, Rakhine has in recent years been the site of widespread political violence. ‘A large-scale loss of life in the camps’ Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing visited Sittwe to assess damage and deliver donations to its residents, state media MRTV reported on Monday.
The same situation has repeated again in our life for the Rohingya people.”Īung Zaw Hein also said he had performed Islamic funeral prayers for eight victims “The people become homeless, shelterless, some people even become powerless. “People are having a very hard time … because they don’t have food, they don’t have a place to lay down,” he added. “I can’t control my tears,” said Aung Zaw Hein, a resident of Rakhine state’s capital city Sittwe, who told CNN that he had seen the bodies of children, and elderly and pregnant women lying on the ground after the cyclone. CNN cannot independently verify that figure, which stands in contrast to an earlier report by the military junta’s Myawaddy TV, which said the official death toll stands at three people, with 13 others injured.īut sources speaking to CNN said many of the bodies of Rohingya victims, who are Muslims, have already been buried per “religious customs.” Myanmar’s shadow government on Tuesday said that at least 400 people have been killed and an unspecified number of people are still missing. Hundreds of people are feared to have died after a powerful cyclone hit Myanmar on Sunday, with rescue groups warning of “a large scale loss of life” following one of the strongest storms to ever hit the country.Ĭyclone Mocha barreled into Myanmar’s coast on Sunday, collapsing houses, felling trees, bringing down telephone poles and severely compromising communication lines in conflict-racked Rakhine state, home to hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
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