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Typhoon Fung-wong: Typhoon Fung-wong wreaked havoc in the Philippines on Sunday. Two people died due to the storm and more than 10 lakh people were rendered homeless.
Typhoon Fung-wong: Typhoon Fung-Wong wreaked havoc in the Philippines on Sunday. The storm killed two people and forced more than 1 million people to flee areas at risk of flash floods, landslides and high tides. Meteorologists said the storm could cover two-thirds of the Southeast Asian archipelago with its 1,800-km-long swath of rain and wind. This typhoon came from the Pacific Ocean at a time when the Philippines was still struggling with the devastation caused by Typhoon Kalamegi. The typhoon had killed at least 224 people in central provinces before making landfall in Vietnam on Tuesday, where five people were killed. Officials said a villager drowned in flash floods in the eastern province of Catanduanes and another villager died after being buried under debris in the town of Catbalogan in the eastern Samar province.
There was darkness in the area due to rain and wind
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared a state of emergency due to the widespread destruction caused by Typhoon Kalamegi and the potential disaster caused by Fung-Wong, which produced winds of up to 230 kilometers per hour. It was located just before noon Sunday in coastal waters near the city of Pandan in eastern Catanduanes province, where darkness had fallen due to torrential rain and fog. According to state meteorologists, it is expected to move northwest and reach the coast of Aurora or Isabela provinces late Sunday night or early Monday. Catanduanes disaster-mitigation officer Roberto Monterola said the rain and wind were so strong that visibility was almost zero. Monterolla said that our soldiers rescued 14 people trapped on the roof of a flooded house in a low-lying area.
Lives of more than 3 crore people are in danger
He further said that a father also called in panic and told that the roof of his house was about to be blown off by the wind. We saved him and his four relatives. More than one million people have been evacuated from high-risk villages in the northeastern provinces. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. warned about the potentially devastating impact of Fang-Wong in a televised statement Saturday. He said the typhoon could affect a large part of the country, including the central province of Cebu, which was hardest hit by the previous typhoon, and the densely populated capital area, metropolitan Manila. The Civil Defense Office said that more than 30 million people could be at risk from Fung-Wong. Teodoro asked people to follow government orders and seek shelter away from villages and towns prone to flash floods, landslides and coastal tides.
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