US EditionMore than 900,000 evacuated in the Philippines as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon
- More than 916,860 people were evacuated from high-risk villages in northeastern provinces, including Bicol, as the Philippines undertakes one of its largest emergency evacuations due to Super Typhoon Fung-wong.
- Last week Typhoon Kalmaegi killed 204 people and displaced more than half a million, prompting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., President of the Philippines, to declare a state of emergency.
- PAGASA warned Fung-wong carries sustained winds of 185km/h with gusts up to 230km/h and a high risk of life-threatening storm surge exceeding 3.0 m along many coastal communities.
- More than 300 flights were cancelled by the Philippine civil aviation regulator, power outages were reported in parts of Eastern Visayas, and the Philippine Coast Guard moved evacuees boarding trucks to shelters.
- The Office of Civil Defense said more than 30 million people could be exposed to Fung-wong hazards, with recovery efforts starting after impacts shift northward on Monday, November 10.
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Super typhoon Fung-wong, known locally as Uwan, weakened this Monday after traveling over the coastal waters of the Union, in the northern Philippines, after beating with strong winds and heavy rains wide areas of the country and forcing the evacuation of about a million people, the Pagasa national weather agency reported.
The Philippines, with more than 7,000 islands, of which 2,000 are inhabited, suffers about twenty strong typhoons each year, being one of the most vulnerable places on the planet to natural disasters Read
Its radius covers almost all of the Philippines. In total, nearly 1.2 million people have been evacuated.
The super typhoon has landed this Sunday on the northeastern coast of the Philippines and began to raze everything in its path with a provisional death toll of two, a million evacuated and enormous material damage in a country still resounding by the catastrophic route a few days ago of typhoon Kalmaegi, which left at least 224 dead.Fung-wong, according to the first estimates of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services A…
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