Iligan (AFP) .- Tropical Storm Washi that hit the southern
Philippines, which caused flooding in areas of widespread killing 180 people
and nearly 400 people missing, officials said Saturday.
They said 20,000 troops were deployed in a massive rescue efforts and relief operations conducted around the northern coast of Mindanao island hit by typhoons. Two important port of the island, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan most severe natural disasters.
Iligan city mayor Lawrence Cruz said flooding caused by overflowing rivers that struck a quarter of the land area of the city's population of 100,000 souls.
"It was the worst flood in the history of our city," said Cruz told GMA television station. "The flood happens very quickly, when people are a sleep." Television stations showed images of the dramatic that one family out of the window to escape their homes in the city during high floods, and rescue workers to help those who survived fled to a safer place while the water reached chest height.
Regional military spokesman said 97 bodies were found in Cagayan de Oro, with 75 bodies were found in Iligan.
In Iligan 250 people missing, and 125 others missing in Cagayan de Oro, a city berpeduduk half a million people.
Three people were also drowned in the city Polaco and five people were killed in landslides in the mountains near the town of Monkayo, words and Disaster Management Agency in Manila.
Benito Ramos, director of the agency eksetuif estimated number of people who posed no threat menira storm, in an area that is outside the hurricane.
"Hurricanes rarely hit this area and population in spite of the storm to calm their area," said Ramos.
Pat Noel Iligan tourism official told AFP that the water began to rise shortly before midnight Friday local time (23:00 GMT Friday) when the population is asleep, hit and washed away houses made lightweight building materials and the residents who live on the edge of the river.
Two of the three rivers that have overflowed in the city of Iligan, he added, and a radio commentator was among those killed.
The storm was expected to hit the island of Palawan on Saturday night after crossing the Sulu Sea, with peak winds 75km per hour, the country's weather agency said.
Philippines hit by 20 hurricanes stronger every year with the most severe of Luzon, the largest and most populated island in the Southeast Asian country.
Two typhoons hit the country's Nesatdan Nalgae within a few days last September, killing more than 100 people, while a tropical storm Banyan killed eight others in October. (A-26/afp) *** http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/node/169792
They said 20,000 troops were deployed in a massive rescue efforts and relief operations conducted around the northern coast of Mindanao island hit by typhoons. Two important port of the island, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan most severe natural disasters.
Iligan city mayor Lawrence Cruz said flooding caused by overflowing rivers that struck a quarter of the land area of the city's population of 100,000 souls.
"It was the worst flood in the history of our city," said Cruz told GMA television station. "The flood happens very quickly, when people are a sleep." Television stations showed images of the dramatic that one family out of the window to escape their homes in the city during high floods, and rescue workers to help those who survived fled to a safer place while the water reached chest height.
Regional military spokesman said 97 bodies were found in Cagayan de Oro, with 75 bodies were found in Iligan.
In Iligan 250 people missing, and 125 others missing in Cagayan de Oro, a city berpeduduk half a million people.
Three people were also drowned in the city Polaco and five people were killed in landslides in the mountains near the town of Monkayo, words and Disaster Management Agency in Manila.
Benito Ramos, director of the agency eksetuif estimated number of people who posed no threat menira storm, in an area that is outside the hurricane.
"Hurricanes rarely hit this area and population in spite of the storm to calm their area," said Ramos.
Pat Noel Iligan tourism official told AFP that the water began to rise shortly before midnight Friday local time (23:00 GMT Friday) when the population is asleep, hit and washed away houses made lightweight building materials and the residents who live on the edge of the river.
Two of the three rivers that have overflowed in the city of Iligan, he added, and a radio commentator was among those killed.
The storm was expected to hit the island of Palawan on Saturday night after crossing the Sulu Sea, with peak winds 75km per hour, the country's weather agency said.
Philippines hit by 20 hurricanes stronger every year with the most severe of Luzon, the largest and most populated island in the Southeast Asian country.
Two typhoons hit the country's Nesatdan Nalgae within a few days last September, killing more than 100 people, while a tropical storm Banyan killed eight others in October. (A-26/afp) *** http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/node/169792
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