Mass evacuations as Cyclone Mahasen puts eight million people at risk in Bangladesh and Burma But it may still bring "life-threatening conditions" for 8.2 million people in northeast India, Bangladesh and Burma, it warned, adding Bangladesh's Chittagong and Cox's Bazaar areas could face the worst of a tidal surge and heavy rains. Cox's Bazaar, a long strip of coastline, is home to ramshackle camps housing Rohingya Muslim refugees. Local officials said 113 medical teams had been mobilised to deal with the impact of the cyclone and leave had been cancelled for all government employees. "We've made all the preparations to face the cyclone," Mohammed Kamruzzaman, a government magistrate in charge of a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, told AFP. We have been using loudspeakers to alert both documented and undocumented Rohingya refugees of the dangers of the cyclone. We've also stockpiled dry food, kept medical teams and ambulances on stand-by and shifted the sick and pregnant women from the camps to hospitals. Cyclone Mahasen was classified as the lowest-level category one on a one-to-five scale and packing winds of up to 88 kilometres (55 miles) per hour at its centre, Shamsuddin Ahmed, deputy chief of Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told AFP. But as a category one storm it "could unleash a storm surge of up to seven feet (two metres) high in the low-lying coastal areas" and create damage in other areas, Mr Ahmed said. Experts say Bangladesh is better prepared to handle cyclones than authorities across the border in Rakhine, where tens of thousands of Rohingya made homeless by communal unrest last year languish in flood-prone camps. Burma state media late last night said rescuers were searching for 58 missing Rohingya whose boat capsized after hitting rocks in a coastal waterway after they fled the cyclone's path to escape to higher ground. A number of other Rohingya in Burma have expressed reluctance to relocate, reflecting deep mistrust of security forces following two outbreaks of violence last year that left about 200 people dead and whole neighbourhoods razed. Rights groups have accused Burma security forces of complicity in the unrest. They have also criticised Burma for failing to provide permanent housing sooner for displaced Rohingya, after months of warnings of the danger posed to the camps by this year's monsoon. Burma said the cyclone could delay Thein Sein's planned state visit to the United States, which would be the first by a leader of the former pariah nation in almost half a century.