Super typhoon Noru hit the northern Philippines on Monday, killing five rescuers, in addition to flooding and power outages, forcing the suspension of classes and the closure of public services.
Typhoon Noru (Karding, Philippines), the most powerful to hit the country this year, made landfall in the city of Bordeaux in Quezon province before sunset on Sunday, and weakened as it passed through Luzon during the night.
On the island, where the capital Manila is located, thousands of people were evacuated from their homes to emergency shelters, some by force, authorities admitted.
The governor of Bulacan province, north of Manila, Daniel Fernando, said the five rescuers, helping residents trapped by floodwaters, were hit by a falling wall.
the five men will have drowned in the troubled waters, Fernando told DZMM radio.
On Polillo Island, northeast of Quezon province, a man was injured when he fell from a roof, authorities said.
In Quezon alone, more than 17 thousand people they were moved from high-risk communities prone to flooding and landslides to emergency shelters.
More than three thousand people were evacuated from their homes in Metro Manila, hit by strong winds and rain overnight.
A Classes and public services were suspended this Monday in the capital and neighboring provincesAs a precaution.
The provinces of Aurora and Nueva Ecija, in the north of the Philippines, were this Monday without energywith teams already on the ground working to restore power, Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla told President Ferdinand Marcos Jr in a televised meeting.
According to the Philippine Meteorological Disaster Agency, it entered the category of “super typhoon” after a period of “explosive intensification”with sustained winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour Y gusts of up to 240 kilometers per hour.
Near 20 storms and typhoons hit the Philippines on average every year.
The archipelago also sits on the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a region along the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur, making the Philippines one of the most disaster-prone nations in the world.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the world’s strongest recorded tropical cyclones, caused more than 7,300 people dead and missing in the central Philippines, forcing even moreand five million people leaving their homes.
Source: Observadora
