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Added on the 19/05/2023 11:42:16 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
People take shelter at a school in Teknaf, the southern-most border town in Bangladesh, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mocha. Bangladeshi authorities had moved 190,000 people in Cox's Bazar and nearly 100,000 in Chittagong to safety ahead of the cyclonic storm. IMAGES
Wind and rain in Myanmar's Kyanktaw as tropical Cyclone Mocha forecast to make landfall in hours. IMAGES
Myanmar's junta pardoned more than 2,000 political prisoners to mark a Buddhist holiday, with families rushing to prisons for tearful reunions with loved ones jailed in a sweeping crackdown on dissent. IMAGES
Mumbai (India), May 17 (EFE / EPA) .- India has evacuated more than 135,000 people on the western coast of the country before the arrival of the "extremely severe" cyclone Tauktae, which will make its landfall this Monday with winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour while the country registers the highest numbers of Covid-19 cases in the world.FOOTAGE OF THE DESTRUCTION GENERATED BY THE CYCLONE IN MUMBAI, INDIA.
Bangladeshis clean up their homes after Cyclone Mocha sweeps through, bringing down trees, tin roofs and damaging houses in the most powerful storm to hit the South Asian nation since 2007. Bangladesh authorities say there have been no reports of deaths from the cyclone so far. IMAGES