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Business News/ News / World/  Typhoon Fung-Wong leaves 5 dead in Philippines, heads toward Taiwan
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Typhoon Fung-Wong leaves 5 dead in Philippines, heads toward Taiwan

Fung-Wong will probably make landfall in southern Taiwan Saturday morning

Residents wade through floodwaters on a street while others watch from the rooftop of their house after Tropical Storm Fung-Wong battered Cainta, Rizal province, east of Manila on 20 September 2014. Photo: ReutersPremium
Residents wade through floodwaters on a street while others watch from the rooftop of their house after Tropical Storm Fung-Wong battered Cainta, Rizal province, east of Manila on 20 September 2014. Photo: Reuters

Manila: Typhoon Fung-Wong is approaching Taiwan packing wind gusts as strong as 55 knots (100 kilometers per hour) and leaving at least five dead in the Philippines where it caused Manila’s worst flooding in at least two years.

Fung-Wong, Phoenix in English, was centered about 340 nautical miles (630 kilometers) south-southwest of Taipei on Saturday morning, tracking northward at 10 knots according to the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center. It will probably make landfall in southern Taiwan Saturday morning, the center forecasts.

More than 500,000 people were affected by downpours throughout the northern and central Philippines, with 100,000 or more having no electricity, the national disaster-management agency reported. About 25% of Metro Manila was submerged in water yesterday, Metro Manila Development Authority chairman Francis Tolentino said at 6 pm on Friday.

A two-year-old girl drowned in Quezon City and a 69-year- old woman died after being hit by debris, said Alexander Pama, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on Friday. Two men were electrocuted and another drowned in the capital region, and a 55-year-old man remains missing in Quezon City. The agency revised an earlier report of seven deaths, saying two fatalities were attributable to an earlier storm, not Fung-Wong.

ABS-CBN showed footage of people wading through chest-high waters and residents trapped on the upper floors of their homes, while many were being rescued by boats. About 15% of Metro Manila roads remained impassable as of 6 pm yesterday, Tolentino said.

Torrential rains

Monsoon rains intensified by Fung-Wong dumped 268 millimeters (10.6 inches) of water over the northern Philippines in 24 hours, equivalent to half a month’s rain, the weather bureau said yesterday. Provinces north of the capital, including Nueva Ecija, Zambales and Tarlac, are still at severe risk of floods, it said.

Typhoon Ketsana, which killed more than 400 people in the capital five years ago, brought 455 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and inundated 60% of Metro Manila. Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever to hit land, killed more than 6,200 people in the Philippines and left more than a thousand missing in November 2013. Bloomberg

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Published: 20 Sep 2014, 01:14 PM IST
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