Typhoon "Milenyo" sweeps Philippines... ; 12:57 PM
Typhoon "Milenyo" sweeps Greater Manila and Eastern Visayas
Residents of Metro Manila picked their way through the aftermath of typhoon Milenyo (international codename Xangsane) on Friday with large parts of their city still without power, debris-strewn streets and a rising death toll. Milenyo, which swept into the center of the country on Wednesday with winds of up to 130 kph (81 mph) and gusts of 160 kph, roared through Manila on Thursday ripping up lamp posts, roofs and billboards and bringing the city to a near standstill.
ABS-CBN's News Patrol reported that violent winds and flood waters in the central islands and Manila killed at least 18 people. In its 6 a.m. report, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said one was killed in Central Luzon, four in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon), four in Bicol, two in Western Visayas, one in Central Visayas and four in Metro Manila. Ten people remained missing in Calabarzon and two in Central Visayas. The report added that four people were injured from Calabarzon, Bicol and Metro Manila. A total of 12,345 families, or 60,820 people, were displaced or affected by the tropical storm in Southern Tagalog, Bicol, Western and Eastern Visayas and Metro Manila.
The NDCC also reported that at least 1,985 passengers, 65 buses/rolling cargos, 17 trucks, 18 light vehicles, 19 vessels and motor boats remained stranded in various terminals and sea ports in Calabarzon, Bicol and Central Visayas. The council also monitored 1,261 damaged houses, 235 of which were totally damaged, in Central Luzon, Southern Tagalog, Bicol, Western Visayas and Eastern Visayas.
"It is one of the worst devastations that Manila has experienced," Mayor Lito Atienza told a radio station. Milenyo, which weakened over the capital on Thursday, strengthened back to a typhoon as it left the country and is heading westward toward the Vietnamese beach resort of Danang, which it is expected to hit on Saturday afternoon. Milenyo's center is currently around 450 km northwest of Manila but the typhoon's destructive path was still visible to the city's 12 million residents with uprooted trees, toppled cars and electrical polls blocking streets.
Manila, along with two provinces, was declared under a state of calamity and trading on the stock exchange and peso market suspended for a second day due to widespread power outages. Schools and public offices in the capital remained shut and in the center of the country, 16 villages were flooded. Nearly 61,000 people were affected by landslides, flood waters and wind damage and the bill for damage to agriculture and infrastructure was estimated at P134 million ($2.7 million) in six central provinces in the rural Bicol region.
Milenyo was the 13th typhoon to hit the Philippines this year.
Tropical storms regularly hit the archipelago of about 7,000 islands. In the worst disaster in recent years, more than 5,000 people died in Leyte in 1991 in floods triggered by a typhoon.
In 2004, about 1,800 people were killed or went missing in a series of storms. The toll included 480 who were killed when mudslides hit three towns in Quezon, an eastern province.
-courtesy ABS-CBN
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