The death toll from Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar has risen to 145, according to the country's junta, with the majority of the victims belonging to the persecuted Rohingya minority.

On Sunday, Mocha delivered torrential rain and gusts of 195 kilometers per hour (120 miles per hour) to Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, destroying buildings and turning streets into rivers. The storm churned up villages, uprooted trees, and knocked down communications across parts of Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees reside in displacement camps in the region as a result of decades of ethnic violence.

“Altogether 145 local people were killed during the cyclone,” a statement from Myanmar’s junta authorities said.

The number included four soldiers, 24 locals and 117 “Bengalis,” it added, using a pejorative term for the Rohingya.

Widely viewed as interlopers from Bangladesh, Rohingya are denied citizenship and access to health care in Myanmar, and require permission to travel outside of their townships.

A Rohingya village leader previously said that more than 100 people were missing from his village alone following the storm.

Another leader based near the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe said that at least 105 Rohingya had died around the city, with counting still ongoing.