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The death toll from super typhoon Man-yi in the Philippines has risen to 12, the country’s disaster agency said today, as widespread flooding subsided.
Man-yi swept through villages and destroyed vulnerable homes across the island nation over the weekend, packing sustained winds of up to 185 km/h. This is the sixth major typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month.
Together, they have killed at least 175 people, displaced thousands, and destroyed crops and livestock. Most of the victims of Typhoon Man-yi were in the northern part of the capital Manila. Seven people died when landslides buried their homes in Nueva Vizcaya province.
A landslide toppled a house, burying three people alive, in the coastal town of Dipaculao, where Typhoon Man-yi made landfall for the second time, Ariel Nepomuceno, the head of the state disaster agency, told AFP. He added that four people are still missing.
“We are now in the recovery phase, people have started to repair their homes,” Nepomuceno said. “Building materials are arriving in hard-hit areas.”
In the northern city of Tuguegarao, floods from burst dams and the rising Cagayan River have begun to recede, after they submerged thousands of homes in the days since the typhoon swept through the country.
“The water level has receded and is now just over 0.3 m. “Some of the displaced have returned home,” Ian Valdepenas, a local disaster management official, told AFP today.
Schools and government offices have reopened. About 20 major typhoons and typhoons hit Southeast Asian countries or surrounding waters each year, killing many people, but it is rare for many such weather events to occur in a short window.
