Cleaning up and counting the dead


Everything is gone: A Rohingya woman carrying her baby amid the ruins of their house at the Basara refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. — AFP

RECOVERY efforts were underway in Myanmar and Bangladesh after a powerful cyclone smashed into their coastlines, causing widespread destruction and at least 21 deaths, with hundreds of others believed missing.

Myanmar took the brunt of Cyclone Mocha on Sunday, while Bangladesh was spared a feared catastrophe.

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