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Authorities have evacuated thousands of people out of the path
of tropical storm Nalgae, which could possibly make landfall
Friday night in Samar province in central Philippines, disaster
officials said.
Naguib Sinarimbo, interior minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous
Region in Mindanao (BARMM), said the rainfall in Maguindanao
province had exceeded expectations.
"There were preparations made but unfortunately, the rainfall
was more than what people had expected," Sinarimbo said.
In the southern province of Sultan Kudarat, rescue workers used
rubber boats to get to residents trapped in chest-deep waters,
images shared by the coast guard showed.
Landslides and floods are frequent in the Philippines, due in
part to the growing intensity of tropical cyclones that
regularly batter the country. The Philippines sees an average 20
typhoons a year.
Tropical storm Nalgae, packing winds of 75 km (47 miles) per
hour, forced flight cancellations just as thousands of people
were planning to travel to their home towns to observe All Souls
Day. Schools were also shut down and some ports saw operations
paralysed.
The storm could intensify further while moving over the
Philippine Sea, the weather bureau said.
(Reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by Kanupriya Kapoor)
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