Hundreds are feared to be dead after Cyclone Mocha raged through western Myanmar on Sunday, with sustained winds of 155 mph and gusts of up to 195 mph. The storm also brought heavy rain and flooding to the area as it made landfall in the Burmese town of Sittwe. The cyclone was expected to hit Cox's Bazar, the world's largest refugee camp, but the 1 million people living in the camp were spared as the massive cyclone barely missed them. Thankfully, the cyclone has now dissipated, and it no longer poses a threat to the area. However, quite a bit of cleanup has to be done, and rescue efforts are kicking into high gear now that the storm has passed.
On another note, yet another mass shooting has taken place in the United States, this time in the state of New Mexico. An 18-year-old gunman entered a neighborhood in Farmington, New Mexico with three guns, including the gun notorious in the US for shootings: an AR-15. He soon started firing at whatever he saw: people, cars, houses. In the end, he killed three people and injured six others before police officers arrived at the scene and killed him. This is only one of the 220 mass shootings that have taken place in 2023 so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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