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Before the knock of Cyclone Moka in Bangladesh, more than five lakh people have been evacuated to safe places. This storm can prove to be dangerous.
BBCRed flags have been put up at various places to warn people
Before the knock of Cyclone Moka in Bangladesh, more than five lakh people have been evacuated to safe places. This storm can prove to be dangerous.
According to estimates, Moka storm will hit the coast around noon. Its speed can be up to 170 kilometers per hour and during this time waves up to 3.6 meters high can rise in the sea.
There is also a possibility of this storm rising in the Bay of Bengal to hit the world’s largest refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar. About one million refugees live in slums in Cox’s Bazar.
Due to the storm, it is raining in the camp and red flags have been put up for warning.
Cyclone Moka can prove to be the most powerful storm to hit Bangladesh in the last two decades.
Nearby airports have been closed amid fears of the storm moving towards Bangladesh and Myanmar. Fishermen have been asked to leave work and return and about 1500 relief shelters have been made.
People are being taken to safer places from the areas which may be affected by the storm.
Vibhushan Kanti Das, additional deputy commissioner of Cox’s Bazar, told the BBC: “We are ready to face any threat… We don’t want to lose a single life.”
Families kept coming to the safe places built in Bangladesh throughout the day. Hundreds of people are living in the rooms of schools in Cox’s Bazar.
BBCPeople have been shifted to relief camps ahead of the landfall
Some people are coming carrying their essentials in plastic bags. Some have also brought their chickens and goats along.
Jannat, 17, has made a place for herself on a school bench with her two-month-old baby. She has brought some clothes with her in a bag, apart from this she has nothing.
Her husband is still at home near the beach, trying to get things in order before coming to the camp.
Jannat says that she is very scared about the storm because her house was also destroyed in the Sitrang storm that came last year.
Jannat says, “I am scared thinking what will happen next. I am afraid that our house might get drowned again in this storm.”
Because of this storm, Rohingya refugees who fled for their lives from Myanmar and have been living in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps for many years are at risk. About one million people live here.
Most of the families in Cox’s Bazar live in shanties made of bamboo and tarpaulin. The United Nations says that it is making every effort to provide help here.
The government of Bangladesh does not allow Rohingya refugees to leave the camp. There is a fear among the people living here that what will happen if the storm hits the camp.
The family of Mohammad Rafiq, 40, also lives in a bamboo shanty for refugees.
Such shanties made of bamboo and tarpaulin will not be able to provide much protection to the people in case of a storm.
BBCRafiq says that he has no way but to pray.
Rafiq says, “We can only pray to Allah to save our lives. We have no safe place to go. There is no one to whom we can ask for help.”
He says, “We have seen many difficulties in the past and our houses have been falling apart. We hope that this time it does not happen.”
There is a possibility that there will be heavy rains due to the storm and it can also cause landslides.
Landslides are common in Cox’s Bazar near the hills where this camp is located and there is an atmosphere of fear among the people about it.
Mohammad Shamshul Duza, a Bangladeshi government official who works at the refugee and camp monitoring office, told the BBC his department was working with non-governmental organizations to ensure the camps were prepared for any eventuality.
But he said that getting the refugees out of the camp is not an easy task.
BBCa man leading his animals to safety
Shamshul Duza says, “It is very difficult to safely evacuate one million refugees. We have to be practical.”
He says, “Our plan is to save lives. We are also preparing for the days after the storm. Is.”
It is not yet clear how climate change is related to the frequency of storms, but we do know that if ocean temperatures rise, the air above becomes warmer and more energy is available for cyclones and hurricanes to form. it occurs.
Due to this the storms become more powerful and it rains heavily.
Since the beginning of the industrial era, the Earth’s temperature has increased by 1.1 degrees. Until the governments around the world do not take concrete steps towards reducing carbon emissions, the temperature will continue to rise like this.