Tag: typhoon Karen

DPWH says 17 roads closed, 2 hardly passable due to Typhoon ‘Karen’

MANILA, Oct. 18 – Some seventeen (17) road sections from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Regions 2, and 3 were affected by Typhoon ‘Karen’ and are not passable due to washed-out detour road and bridge approach, slides, mudflow, soil collapse, fallen rocks, trees, and utility posts, and flooding. Based on October 17, 2016 (12:00 noon) report of the Department of Public Works and Highways Bureau of Maintenance, closed road sections in CAR are: Kabugao-Pudtol Road, […]

One dead as Philippines faces ‘most damaging typhoon’

  MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – At least one person was killed and three were missing as the Philippines faces what could be “the most damaging” storm this year in the approaching Typhoon Sarika, officials said Saturday. A man was found dead on the seashore while three fishermen were reported missing in the eastern island of Catanduanes as Sarika, packing maximum winds of 180 kilometres (112 miles) per hour, passed nearby, the civil defence office said. […]