MANILA: Philippine rescue workers battled floodwaters on Friday (Oct 25) to reach residents still trapped on the roofs of their homes as Tropical Storm Trami moved out to sea after killing at least 40 people.
Residents carrying belongings wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rains brought about by Tropical Storm Trami in Naga City, Camarines Sur province on Oct 24, 2024. MANILA: Philippine rescue workers battled floodwaters on Friday to reach residents still trapped on the roofs of their homes asTens of thousands remained displaced after fleeing floods driven by a torrential downpour that dumped two months' worth of rainfall in just two days in some areas.
As Trami departed the Philippines in the early hours, traveling west over the South China Sea, the storm's death toll swelled as fresh reports of victims emerged. While Manila was seemingly spared the kind of heavy flooding that accompanied Typhoon Gaemi in July, AFP reporters on Friday saw a subdivision south of the capital that was largely submerged.
An official tally late on Thursday reported 193,000 people evacuated in the face of flooding that turned streets into rivers and half-buried some towns in sludge-like volcanic sediment set loose by the storm. In the Batangas town of Lemery, about 97km south of Manila, a hospital was forced to turn away patients as its wards and emergency rooms were flooded.
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