Cyclone Mocha: Severe storm lashes parts of Mizoram damaging houses, Churches and disrupting transmission lines

A severe storm lashed parts of Mizoram state on May 14, uprooting trees, damaging houses, Churches in several districts after Cyclone Mocha made its landfall near the Myanmar coast.

Huge billboards, rooftops were blown off by the strong winds accompanied by heavy rainfall, thus disrupting transmission lines after the second most intense cyclonic storm since 1982 hit the region on May 14.

Visuals show strong winds blowing away rooftops as the wind speed went up to 130 miles per hour. 

Lunglei district in Mizoram bored the maximum impact of Cyclone Mocha where more than 100 houses were reported damaged in the severe storm.

Meanwhile, Cyclone Mocha made landfall on May 14 intensifying into a severe storm accompanied by heavy rainfall and strong winds, ravaging parts of Myanmar and killing at least three people. 

Cyclone Mocha has been touted as the second most intense cyclone over the Bay of Bengal since 1982, as the storm uprooted trees, blew away roofs of houses, inundated several parts of the country, according to reports.

The weather department said in its latest bulletin that the cyclone has weakened into a cyclonic storm over Myanmar.

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