Seeking safety: A Bangladeshi villager evacuating to a cyclone shelter on the coast in Cox’s Bazar district. — AFP
Dhaka: Cyclone Mora battered Bangladesh, killing five people and seriously damaging a camp housing thousands of Rohingya refugees who had fled violence in Myanmar.
Authorities said they evacuated nearly 600,000 people from vulnerable areas before the storm hit the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday, bringing winds of up to 135kph.
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