the very severe cyclone Mocha gains strength as it approaches Cox’s Bazar district in southeastern Bangladesh It houses the Rohingya refugee camp, the largest in the world with almost a million people from this minority.

The Bangladesh Meteorological Department today requested the port of Cox’s Bazar, on the country’s east coast, to issue distress signal ten for this region, the highest, and distress signal eight in the also coastal district of Chittagong.

According to the United Nations, “Cyclone Mocha is heading straight for camps in Bangladesh right now,” with hundreds of thousands of people in very vulnerable conditions.

“Cyclonic storm is rapidly increasing in Bay of Bengal, threatening the region with violent winds, floods and landslides that could affect hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people,” said Clare Nullis of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), according to a UN statement.

According to these reports, the storm will continue to intensify until it makes landfall at noon on Sunday between Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Kyaukpyu in Myanmar. (about 0600 GMT), with a diameter between 500 and 700 kilometers.

However, the Bangladeshi authorities are still trying to complete the evacuation process, which will involve moving and relocating hundreds of thousands of people in less than 24 hours.

“We expect to have evacuated half a million people by tonight. So far, 200,000 people have been evacuated, including all residents of the island of Saint Martin,” Bangladesh Cyclone Preparedness Program head Ahmadul Haque told EFE.

The Rohingyas, Haque explained, are being evacuated to safer places, such as the offices of humanitarian aid agencies in the region.the learning centers, the mosques and “their shelters are tied up to withstand the wind.”

According to spokeswoman Margaret Harris, the World Health Organization (WHO) has 40 ambulances and 33 mobile medical teams on standby at Cox’s Bazar.

For its part, the UNHCR, he said, has allocated about 230 tons of dry food and 24.5 tons of enriched biscuits to provide 50,000 hot meals a day if needed.