Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter |
South Korean government has announced the provision of $500,000 Us dollars in humanitarian assistance to Myanmar following the impact of Cyclone Mocha, which struck the country on Sunday, May 14 resulted in
severe flooding, building collapses and caused immense damage.
The Korean government hopes that “the humanitarian assistance will help the affected people of Myanmar in swiftly bringing back stability and facilitating the early recovery of the impacted areas,” said the Foreign
Ministry.
Cyclone Mocha, one of the strongest and devastating storms crashed ashore in Myanmar took a direct hit to western Rakhine state as well as the regions of Sagaing and Magway on Sunday May 21,2023 at 1:30pm.
It is a category 4 tropical cyclone, that brought winds of up to 250 km/h, heavy rains, storm surges, flash floods, and landslides in the Bay of Bengal within the last 10 years that caused significant damage to people's homes, infrastructure, power and water services.
Hundreds of homes and shelters have collapsed while communication system has been difficult in the country and people are still missing.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), “about 50,000 people in the country’s northwest were heavily affected. Houses, schools and hospitals were destroyed across Chin state, and about 85,000 people in Sagaing region were impacted – a situation exacerbated by ongoing conflict and the presence of troops hindering access to safe shelter.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in neighboring country Bangladesh, but the storm crushed
thousands of shelters in the world's largest refugee camp at Cox's Bazar, a home to about one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
Cyclone Mocha came 15 years after one of Asia's deadliest cyclones, Nargis has struck into Myanmar's
Irrawaddy Delta on May 2,2008 and claimed 140,000 lives.
