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Typhoon Vamco: Rescue Efforts Take Place in the Philippines
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13:12Now PlayingRescue efforts take place in Manila after Typhoon Vamco, known locally as Ulysses, barreled into the Philippines’ main Luzon Island, killing at least 1 person and flooding parts of the capital region and nearby provinces.
Currency, stocks and bonds trading were suspended after President Rodrigo Duterte halted work in government offices in Metro Manila before Vamco made landfall in Quezon province south of the capital late Wednesday.
The mayor of Marikina, a city in the capital region, appealed for rescue in an ABS-CBN News Channel interview as water in the Marikina River has already exceeded the level seen during Typhoon Ketsana in 2009. That storm 11 years ago killed more than 400 people and damaged 11 billion pesos ($228 million) in infrastructure and agriculture after dumping a month’s worth of rain in a six-hour period.
The reservoir water level of Angat dam in Bulacan province has reached critical level, the National Power Corp. said, urging residents to be on alert. A river in Noveleta town in Cavite province has overflowed, its mayor told DZBB radio.
Vamco, the 21st storm to hit the Philippines this year, is packing winds as fast as 130 kilometers (81 miles) per hour near the center and gusts of up of 215 kilometers per hour as it traverses Luzon at 30 kilometers per hour, according to the local weather bureau’s 8 a.m. bulletin. The typhoon weakened as it was about to leave the landmass of Luzon but could intensify anew when it moves to the South China Sea. It’s tracking a path headed to Vietnam.
The latest storm is lashing regions already battered about two weeks ago by Super Typhoon Goni, which killed at least 25 people and damaged about 18 billion pesos ($373 million) of infrastructure and farm output.
A 68-year-old man was found dead on the roof of his house in Camarines Norte, while three men also in the same province are missing, authorities said. More than 171,000 people have fled their homes in the Bicol region, which is still reeling from recent storms.
An average of 20 cyclones pass through disaster-prone Philippines every year, which can complicate the nation’s fight against the coronavirus as hundreds of thousands of people are evacuated from typhoon-hit areas. In 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Southeast Asian nation and killed more than 6,300 people.
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