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Cyclone Mocha threatens world’s largest refugee camp on Myanmar-Bangladesh border

The Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
The Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Cyclone Mocha is bearing down on the camp and predicted to make landfall on Sunday. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Tropical cyclone Mocha intensified to become “very dangerous”, the World Meteorological Organisation has said, warning of violent winds, floods and possible landslides in Bangladesh which could hit the world’s biggest refugee camp in Cox’s bazar.

Cyclone Mocha is predicted to make landfall on Sunday near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, according to India’s meteorological office, packing winds of up to 175km/h (108mph).

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