Hanoi (VNA) – Tropical storm Fengshen lashed the northern and central Philippines on October 19, leaving at least seven people dead and forcing 47,000 to evacuate.
Nearly 14,000 people who evacuated were still displaced from their homes by October 20, the Philippine government’s disaster-mitigation agency said.
One drowned in Roxas City in the central province of Capiz, where a high tide worsened flooding in many villages.
In Pitogo town, Quezon province in the east, five people, including two children, were killed in their sleep when a large palm tree collapsed onto their house.
Fengshen, with a maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometres per hour, is moving across the East Sea toward Vietnam.
The storm, the 18th tropical cyclone to batter the Philippines this year, hit as central and southern provinces were still recovering from recent earthquakes that left more than 80 dead, displaced thousands of people and damaged more than 134,000 houses in central Cebu province alone.
The Philippines, which lies between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, sees an average of 20 storms a year, resulting in deaths, injuries and damage to crops and infrastructure./.
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