The cyclone had left at least 800,000 people in Myanmar in need of emergency food aid and other assistance, the United Nations World Food Programme said in Geneva on Friday (May 19).
The death toll from Cyclone Mocha has reached 145 in Myanmar, its junta said on Friday , with most of the dead from the persecuted Rohingya minority.
"Altogether 145 local people were killed during the cyclone," a statement from Myanmar's junta authorities said. A Rohingya village leader previously told AFP that more than 100 people were missing from his village alone following the storm. Normal flight service had resumed at Sittwe airport on Thursday, according to newspaper the Global New Light of Myanmar.
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