• Login
  • Home
  • Pakistan
  • International News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Pakistan
  • International News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
Times of Pakistan
No Result
View All Result
Home International News Asia

New typhoon slams northern Philippines

Top by Top
October 1, 2011
in Asia, International News
0
0
SHARES
3
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Typhoon Nalgae slammed into the northern Philippines on Saturday, packing gusts up to 195 kilometres per hour and threatening victims still trapped by previous storm floods, officials said. Nalgae made landfall in Luzon at 9:00am (0100 GMT) and was tearing west across the Philippines’ main island with sustained with of 160 kilometres (99.2 miles) per hour, the state weather service said. The storm was tracking roughly the same path as Typhoon Nesat, which ravaged Luzon with huge floods on Tuesday, Science Undersecretary Graciano Yumul said.

“At this point in time, all the flooded areas should be emptied of people. Local officials should implement forced evacuation,” he told a news conference. Officials say more than a million of Luzon’s 48 million people remain trapped in floods unleashed by Nesat, many from farming towns across central Luzon, where rainwater from nearby mountain ranges flush out into Manila Bay. Nesat killed 50 people and left 31 others missing, according to an updated official tally by the government’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.

It said some 180,000 people were sheltering at state-run evacuation centres, mostly those displaced by Nesat. Its director Benito Ramos said thousands of rescue workers deployed across Luzon ahead of Nalgae’s landfall, and the island’s sparsely populated northeast coast was evacuated from Friday on orders from President Benigno Aquino. “We’re implementing persuasive evacuation operations,” said Ramos, a retired general, telling AFP: “If I have to handcuff people to remove them from their homes I could be charged with human rights violations.”

There had not yet been any reports of casualties or damage, he said. Ida de la Cruz, a 37-year-old farmer’s wife, was sitting out the disaster on her rooftop after floods engulfed her home and the rest of Pulilan, a town of 70,000 people an hour’s drive north of Manila. “We can’t leave our 15 ducks as most of our income come from the eggs that they lay,” she told AFP while she washed clothes using the murky brown floodwaters that had swamped her farmhouse. Chickens and dogs shared her perch. She said no help had arrived since the floods descended on Wednesday, when their three children were dispatched to her mother’s home. She and her husband were down to five kilogrammes (11 pounds) of rice. Raul Agustin, a provincial disaster official in the area, told ABS-CBN television in an interview flood victims were generally reluctant to leave for fear their homes would be looted.

“When we send out rescue teams to help them, they ask for food instead. Today we gave instructions to convince all those marooned on rooftops to move to evacuation centres.” Nesat dumped the biggest single-day volume of rain on the disaster-weary Philippines this year, and Nalgae was expected to bring just as much over the same areas, it added. The capital, Manila, is on the edge of the new typhoon’s 500-kilometre footprint, though the metropolis was calm under leaden skies on Saturday. Luzon and nearby islands are hit by an average of 20 major storms a year. – Khaleejtimes

Tags: Philippines typhoon news
Previous Post

Strictly Come Dancing, episode 1, review

Next Post

Saudi Women’s Voices in Media

Top

Top

Related Posts

FO deplores India’s ‘public notice’ advising students not to pursue higher education in Pakistan
International News

FO deplores India’s ‘public notice’ advising students not to pursue higher education in Pakistan

by Top
April 26, 2022
Hina Khar, UAE minister discuss bilateral ties
International News

Hina Khar, UAE minister discuss bilateral ties

by Top
April 22, 2022
Attacks on mosques, businesses a precursor of full-blown Muslim genocide in India
International News

Attacks on mosques, businesses a precursor of full-blown Muslim genocide in India

by Top
April 21, 2022
UN chief calls for calm in Jerusalem after serious Palestinian-Israeli clashes
International News

UN chief calls for calm in Jerusalem after serious Palestinian-Israeli clashes

by Top
April 18, 2022
India’s noncompliance with UN Kashmir resolutions, arms buildup threaten South Asia peace: Pakistan
International News

India’s noncompliance with UN Kashmir resolutions, arms buildup threaten South Asia peace: Pakistan

by Top
April 7, 2022
Foreign interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs reported: Russian MFA spokesperson
International News

Foreign interference in Pakistan’s internal affairs reported: Russian MFA spokesperson

by Top
April 6, 2022
UNGA votes to again blame Russia for Ukraine humanitarian crisis; Pakistan abstains
International News

UNGA votes to again blame Russia for Ukraine humanitarian crisis; Pakistan abstains

by Top
April 6, 2022
Next Post
Saudi Women’s Voices in Media

Saudi Women’s Voices in Media

Popular Stories

  • Independence Day – 14 August

    Importance of Independence Day – 14 August

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • PM for rising above politics for extensive relief, rehab of flood victims

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • 10 Most Popular Pakistani Female Singers of All Time

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Sheheryar Munawar Broke the Silence on Romantic Photoshoot with Sajal Aly

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Hindu-Muslim Clashes in Indian Gujarat 40 Arrested

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
Times of Pakistan

About Times Of Pakistan

kralbetbetturkeyikimislibahis1xbetm.infohipas.infohttps://www.wiibet.com/restbetcdn.com

Other Categories

  • Beautiful Pakistan
  • Fashion News
  • Funny News
  • Viral Videos
  • Weird News

Recent Posts

  • PM for rising above politics for extensive relief, rehab of flood victims
  • Pakistan to mark Youm-e-Istehsal on August 5 to show solidarity with IIoJK people
  • President telephones COAS; condoles martyrdom of army officers in chopper crash

Times Of Pakistan © 2021. Design & Developed by E2E Solution Providers.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Pakistan
  • International News
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In