BU MA: The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar rose to sixty on Tuesday as villagers tried to reconstruct ruined homes and waited for aid and support, military government-backed media reported.
Gushing winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour, Mocha made landfall on Sunday, downing power pylons and smashing wooden fishing boats to splinters.
In Rakhine state, at least forty-one people died in the villages of Bu Ma and Khaung Doke Kar, inhabited by the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Thirteen people were killed when a monastery building collapsed in a village in Rathedaung township north of Rakhine’s capital city Sittwe, and a woman died when a building collapsed in a nearby village, according to Myanmar state broadcaster MRTV.
The head of Bu Ma village near Sittwe Aa Bul Hu Son said more deaths will occur here as over a hundred people are still missing.
Most powerful cyclone
Mocha was the most powerful cyclone to hit the region in over a decade, churning up villages, knocking out communications, and uprooting trees across much of Rakhine state.
China said it was ready to provide emergency disaster relief support, according to a statement posted on the Facebook page of its embassy in Myanmar.
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