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LOKOJA, Nigeria (AFP) — Nigeria has declared a national disaster after severe flooding left about 100 people dead across 10 states, the country’s main relief agency said on Tuesday. Heavy seasonal rains have caused the Niger and Benue rivers to burst their banks, inundating communities, farms and trapping tens of thousands of people in their homes. Sani Datti, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), told AFP: “We have declared a national disaster in […]
by Sébastien Duval RALEIGH, United States (AFP) — Rain-gorged rivers threatened further flooding on the storm-battered US East Coast Monday as the death toll from Hurricane Florence, now a tropical depression, jumped to 31. Emergency management authorities in North Carolina said an earlier toll of 17 had risen to 25 since Florence made landfall Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, with its aftermath threatening further flooding as well as potential dam failures and landslides. Six […]
https://youtu.be/3NOOg9ip4c8 by Sébastien Duval Agence France Presse GRIFTON, United States (AFP) — Catastrophic floods raised the threat of landslides and dam failures across the southeastern United States on Monday, prolonging the agony caused by a killer hurricane that has left more than a dozen people dead and caused billions of dollars in damage. Downgraded to a tropical depression, Florence crept over South and North Carolina, dumping heavy rains on already flood-swollen river basins that […]
by Elaine YU Agence France Presse HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong commuters clambered over fallen trees and piles of debris Monday in a battle to get to work, as the workaholic city strove to get back to business after a devastating typhoon. Commuters crammed into stations to try to board infrequent trains after the rail system was slowed by damaged power lines. All buses were canceled because many roads were blocked by falling […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Monday, September 17 resumed its search and rescue operation for dozens who were buried by landslide caused by Typhoon Ompong in the mountain town of Itogon, Benguet. (Photos courtesy of BJMP Regional CAR)
(Eagle News) — Matinding pinsala ang naranasan ng mga mamamayan lalo na ng mga magsasaka sa bayan ng Baggao sa lalawigan ng Cagayan. Matatandaang sa Baggao ang sentro kung saan tumama ang mata ng bagyong Ompong. Inararo ng malakas na hangin ang hekta-hektaryang pananim na mga mais. Hindi na ito gaanong pakikinabangan ng mga magsasaka dahil sa naging pinsala. Nasira din ang maraming kabahayan sa bayang ito. Nagliparan ang mga bubong ng ilang mga bahay […]
CAGAYAN, Philippines (AFP) — Homes stripped of their roofs and vast cornfields drowned in muddy floodwaters: this is the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut as seen from the air. The world’s worst storm of the year has left scores dead in the Philippines. https://youtu.be/KBn-z9Tt7-E
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hong Kong began a massive clean-up Monday after Typhoon Mangkhut raked the city, shredding trees and bringing damaging floods, in a trail of destruction that has left dozens dead in the Philippines and millions evacuated in southern China. The death toll in the Philippines, where the main island of Luzon was mauled with fierce winds and rain, rose to 65 overnight as rescuers pulled more bodies from a huge landslide […]
by Purple Romero Agence France Presse TUGUEGARAO, Philippines (AFP) — Bebeth Saquing has seen dozens of storms in her lifetime, but nothing prepared her for the terror of Super Typhoon Mangkhut as it roared over her Philippines home Saturday packing winds of more than 250 kilometres (155 miles) per hour. The most powerful storm to hit the region so far this year left a trail of battered homes, landslides and fallen trees in its wake. […]
by Sebastien Duval with Leila Macor in Myrtle Beach Agence France Presse WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) — A woman and her baby were killed when a tree fell on their house and at least two other storm-related deaths were reported on Friday as Hurricane Florence slammed into the Carolinas, dousing the eastern US states with torrential rain and causing rivers to burst their banks. Hundreds of people needed to be rescued after becoming trapped […]
NEW BERN, North Carolina (AFP) — Hurricane Florence’s storm surge causing trees to fall and building damage on the streets of New Bern, North Carolina where hundreds of people have been rescued from their homes. The riverfront town of New Bern, was hit as the sprawling Category 1 hurricane came close to making landfall.
(Eagle News) — Ipinag-utos ni Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III sa Bureau of Customs na ibigay ang nasabat na bigas at iba pang food items sa Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) para sa disaster relief preparations na may kaugnayan sa bagyong Ompong. Ayon sa DOF, ang nasabing direktiba ay bilang pagtugon sa ipinag-utos ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na lahat ng ahensya ng gobyerno ay dapat na tiyakin ang mataas na lebel ng kahandaan […]
