Philippines, Typhoon Kalmaegi
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Typhoon Kalmaegi — also being called Tino — has claimed at least 85 lives and left 75 others missing across the central Philippines, officials said on Wednesday, as widespread flooding engulfed communities, swept away vehicles, and stranded residents on rooftops in a region still struggling to recover from a deadly earthquake just weeks earlier.
Thousands were evacuated in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday, ahead of a typhoon due to make landfall in a region hit by some of the country's deadliest storms."Some local governments are resorting to forced evacuations,
Typhoon Kalmaegi was approaching the Philippine coast and was forecast to slam the shore later on Monday, as authorities warned that torrential rains could batter the region.
Tens of thousands of people in the east-central Philippines have been ordered to evacuate to safer grounds, with fishermen prohibited from venturing out to sea, as a typhoon approaches. Officials warned of torrential rains and potentially deadly storm surges of up to three metres (nearly 10 feet).