![]() ![]() Leak detected on another Russian pipeline connecting to Europe, but Poland says it looks accidental.Is the US shutting down power to Europe?. ![]() President Biden inaccurately claims that his son 'lost his life in Iraq'.Babies born during pandemic-era lockdowns have 'deficits' in social communication: study.Free speech, Jacinda Ardern and the tyranny of 'kindness'.Forked tongue: Macron urges Putin to 'return to table' on Ukraine while supplying more weapons."They were deployed by the provincial government to a flooded area," said Lieutenant-Colonel Romualdo Andres, chief of police in San Miguel.Īndres said the rescuers were wading through floodwaters when a wall beside them collapsed, sending them into the fast current. Typhoon Noru toppled trees, knocked out power and flooded low-lying communities as it swept across Luzon. The 9 fatalities include 5 veteran rescuers killed in Bulacan, 2 fatalities in Zambales, and 1 each in Quezon Province and Bataan, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council (NDRRMC).Įxtensive damage to agriculture was also recorded as the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines brought heavy rain and fierce winds which hammered the country's most populous island. Residents give away onions and other foods along a flooded road due to Typhoon Noru (codenamed "Karding" in the Philippines) in San Miguel town, Bulacan.The death toll due to the onslaught of Super Typhoon Noru has gone up to 9, according to the officials, even as the supertyphoon makes its way toward Vietnam on Tuesday. Numerous ferry services were suspended and airlines cancelled 30 domestic and international flights to and from Manila, authorities said. It is likely to emerge over the South China Sea by late tonight or early tomorrow. Noru will bring heavy to torrential rains over the capital region and nearby provinces as it moves westward over rice-producing provinces. President Ferdinand Marcos was in communication with cabinet members involved in preparations for the storm, the presidential palace said. The mayor of Dingalan town, also on Luzon, told DZMM radio station that communication lines were severed and the power was out in some communities. Today, authorities began evacuating thousands of people from coastal areas on Luzon, where the capital, Manila, is located. In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded, killed 6,300 people. The Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands, sees an average of 20 tropical storms a year. Waves whipped up by the category 3 typhoon were battering the islands' main port and low-lying areas were flooded, Ms Bosque said. ![]() The storm was likely to make a direct hit on the small islands just east of Luzon. "Coconut trees are swaying while banana plants have been brought down," Angelique Bosque, the mayor of the Polillo Islands, told DZRH radio station. ![]()
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