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Typhoon Full-Wong hit the northwest of the Philippines on Monday after causing floods and lightning, knocking out power in all provinces, killing at least four people and displacing more than 1.4 million others.
The forecast was to head north and west towards Taiwan.
Fung-Wong cried oftrippines in the north while the country was still devastated by Typhoon Kalmaegi, which left at least 224 people dead in the central provinces on Tuesday before the embryo, where at least five were killed.
Fung-Wong hit the Northeast Aurora province on Sunday night as a Super Thshoon with sustained winds of 18 kilometers per hour and 230 kilometers per hour.
The 1,800-kilometer-wide typhoon is weakening as it moves up through northern provinces and mountains overnight before hitting La Union province and the South China Sea, according to the country’s forecasters.
One person drowned in raging floods in the Eastern province of Catandues, another died in Catbabagan City in Eastern Samar when their officials collapsed.
In the Northern Province of Neeva Vizcaya, a burial site buried a hillside house in Kayapa Town before dawn on Monday, killing their parents and the town’s police chief. This Gomultim said.
More than 1.4 million people moved to emergency shelters or the homes of relatives before the storm cleared, and about 318,000 remained in evacuation centers on Monday.
High winds and heavy winds battered at least 132 northern villages, including one where some residents were trapped on their roofs as floodwaters quickly rose. About 1,000 houses were damaged, Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV of the public protection office and other officials said, adding that the roads blocked by mudslides will be cleared as the weather improves on Monday.
“While the typhoon has passed, its rains are still dangerous in some areas” in Northern Luzon, including Metropolitan Manila, “said Zejandro.”
Full damage
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency at night because of the great destruction caused by Kalmaegi and the damage expected from Fung-Wong, which was also called uwan in the Philippines.
Tropical storms with sustained winds of 185 kilometers or more are classified in the Philippines as super Thshoon to alleviate the urgency of being hit by extreme weather disturbances.
Super Typhoon Full-Wong made landfall in the Philippines, bringing torrential rain and winds of up to 200 km / h less than a week after typhoon kalmaegi devastated the country.
The Philippines did not ask for international assistance following the destruction of Kalmaegi, but Teodoro said that the United States, for a long time, agreed with the United States, and Japan at the time of the whole country, and Japan was ready to provide assistance.
Authorities announced that schools and many government offices would be closed on Monday and Tuesday. More than 325 domestic and 61 domestic flights were canceled over the weekend and Monday, and more than 6,600 passengers were dropped off at ports after security guards refused to allow them to board ships leaving the sea.
The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and typhoons every year.
