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Over 5,000 flee homes as storm hits southern Philippines

Published 02/21/2021, 08:26 PM
Updated 02/21/2021, 08:30 PM

MANILA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - More than 5,000 people have fled
to temporary shelters in southern Philippines as tropical storm
Dujuan brought heavy rains, submerging dozens of villages, the
country's disaster monitoring agency said on Sunday.
Two regions were hit, including the country's nickel mining
hub of Caraga, with floods damaging some houses and bridges in
the province of Surigao del Sur, according to the agency's
initial report.
The bad weather also prompted the cancellation of at least
36 domestic flights.
Heavy rains were expected to continue over Caraga and
several other provinces on Monday morning when Dujuan was
forecast to make initial landfall over the Dinagat
Islands-Eastern Samar-Leyte area, the weather bureau said.
Packing maximum winds of 65 kms per hour (40 mph) and gusts
of up to 80 kms/h, Dujuan is the first storm to hit the
Philippines this year.
The Southeast Asian archipelago sees around 20 tropical
storms annually.


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