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Taiwan evacuated almost 1,000 people from endangered areas as Typhoon Fung-Wong, which left at least 10 dead in the Philippines and caused Manila’s worst flooding in two years, approached packing wind gusts as strong as 120kph.
Fung-Wong, Phoenix in English, was centered about 426km south-southwest of Taipei this morning, moving north-northeast at 7 knots according to the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre.
It will probably pass over western Taiwan today before tracking northward toward China’s east coast, the centre forecasts.
There were no reports of casualties in Taiwan as of last night, although 986 people in southern and central regions were evacuated as a precaution, the National Fire Agency said in a statement on its website. Flights between Kaohsiung and Hong Kong were canceled, it reported.
Almost 200,000 people remain in evacuation centers in the Philippines as the death toll from Fung-Wong rose to 10 with seven others injured, according to the latest statement from the national disaster-management agency.
The storm submerged as much as 25 per cent of Metro Manila in floods, Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino said. ABS-CBN showed footage of people wading through chest-high waters and residents trapped on the upper floors of their homes, while many were being rescued by boats.
Farm Losses
Typhoons Fung-Wong and Kalmaegi, which struck a week earlier, will cost the Philippines 1.14 billion pesos (RM77.616 million) in farm output, according to preliminary estimates by the Department of Agriculture.
Monsoon rains intensified by Fung-Wong dumped 268 millimeters (10.6 inches) of water over the northern Philippines in 24 hours, equivalent to half a month’s rain, the weather bureau said yesterday.
Provinces north of the capital, including Nueva Ecija, Zambales and Tarlac, are still at severe risk of floods, it said.
Typhoon Ketsana, which killed more than 400 people in the capital five years ago, brought 455 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and inundated 60 per cent of Metro Manila.
Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever to hit land, killed more than 6,200 people in the Philippines and left more than a thousand missing in November 2013.
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