MANILA: The Philippines raised its highest storm alert and evacuated thousands of people on Thursday, as Super Typhoon Usagi barrelled towards its alr...
This handout photo taken on November 14, 2024 and released by Buguey Municipal Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office via Cagayan Provincial Public Information office shows rescuers fetching residents during a forced evacuation operation in Buguey town, Cagayan province, north of Manila, ahead of Super Typhoon Usagi's landfall.
The national weather agency said the winds could cause “almost total damage to structures of light materials, especially in highly exposed coastal areas”, and “heavy damage” to buildings otherwise considered “low-risk”. “Yesterday it was preemptive evacuations. Now we’re doing forced evacuations,“ local disaster official Edward Gaspar told AFP by phone, adding 1,404 residents were sheltering at a municipal gym.
More than 5,000 Cagayan residents were still in shelters following the previous storms because the Cagayan river, the country’s largest, remained swollen from heavy rain that fell in several provinces upstream.
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