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After lashing Philippines, tropical storm Saudel heads for Vietnam

Published 10/21/2020, 12:43 PM
Updated 10/21/2020, 12:50 PM

MANILA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Tropical storm Saudel has lashed
the Philippines causing flooding and thousands of residents to
evacuate, officials said on Wednesday, with the storm now
heading for Vietnam where more than 100 people have died in
weeks of bad weather.
The region has suffered particularly heavy rainfall amid the
onset of a La Niña weather system, which is characterized by
unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
In Quezon province, southeast of the Philippines capital
Manila, photographs showed widespread flooding and boats used to
ferry residents to dry ground.
"The rainfall coincided with La Niña and the high tide. That
is a big problem," Quezon governor Danilo Suarez told CNN
Philippines.
A waist-deep flood had made the main road in Quezon province
impassable for vehicles, Suarez said.
Nearly 6,000 people were evacuated in provinces south of
Manila as of Tuesday night, disaster agency data showed, though
there have been no reports of casualties.
Bad weather in some areas northeast of Manila had started to
clear, with floods receding, Elson Egargue, a disaster official
in Aurora province told DZMM radio station.
The Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands
and 107 million people, is battered by roughly 20 tropical
storms annually, with Saudel being the 16th this year.
Vietnam is now in the firing line and expects Saudel to hit
the country at full strength when it reaches the Paracels
Islands in the South China Sea, the country's disaster agency
said, adding the death toll from weeks-long floods and
landslides had risen to 111, with 22 still missing.

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