SITTWE, Myanmar: Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh on Saturday as the region's most powerful cyclone for over a decade churned across the Bay of Bengal.

Cyclone Mocha was packing winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour (149 miles per hour), according to the Zoom Earth website, which classed it as a Super Cyclone.

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