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Philippine typhoon Phanfone ruins Christmas for travellers, evacuees

Published 12/25/2019, 03:08 PM
Updated 12/25/2019, 03:16 PM
Philippine typhoon Phanfone ruins Christmas for travellers, evacuees

MANILA, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Christmas turned to chaos for
many holiday observers in the central Philippines as a typhoon
with strong winds and heavy rains destroyed homes, cut off power
and stranded travellers, disaster officials said on Wednesday.
Typhoon Phanfone, rated category 2 by Tropical Storm Risk,
was packing maximum sustained winds of 120 km per hour (75 miles
per hour) with gusts up to 150 kph when it made landfall in the
eastern province of Samar on Tuesday, weather and disaster
officials said.
More than 4,000 people have been evacuated in the Eastern
Visayas region of the central Philippines, disaster officials
said, although no deaths have been reported.
Images posted by Paul Cinco, a resident of Tanauan, Leyte
province, showed strong gusts and damage caused overnight.
"The aftermath of course made us sad because it's Christmas
Day, but it doesn't feel like Christmas, but we're blessed to be
safe...no major devastation or casualties reported," he said.
More than 20,000 passengers and 157 vessels were stranded in
ports on Wednesday, and at least 60 domestic flights have been
cancelled. Local media reported that 100 homes in the path of
the storm were destroyed overnight.
An average of 20 typhoons cross the Philippines each year,
with storms becoming fiercer in recent years. More than 6,000
people died and 200,000 homes destroyed when Typhoon Haiyan, the
strongest-ever storm to make landfall in the Philippines, hit
the central islands of Leyte and Samar six years ago.
Phanfone, which gained strength as it barrelled through the
central region, is expected to exit the country on Thursday.


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