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SAN JUAN, Philippines,

December 8, 2014


 Updated: December 8, 2014 23:26 IST 


Philippine storm weakens after leaving 21 dead 





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A Filipino man brings out sand which he retrieved from his house after strong waves from Typhoon Hagupit battered a coastal village in Legazpi, Albay province.






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 Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm on Monday after leaving at least 21 people dead and forcing more than a million into shelters, while sparing most of a central Philippine region still reeling from last year’s monster Typhoon Haiyan. Forecasters, however, said Hagupit could still generate storm surges that could overwhelm coastal villages. In the capital, police officers were asking people to stay away from a promenade beside Manila Bay for safety reasons. More than 2,800 villagers moved to emergency shelters in San Juan, a low-lying and flood-prone town popular for its beach resorts, including 220 people huddled inside a gymnasium as torrential rains pounded. “It’s really scary if you’ve watched what happened during Haiyan,” said Amy de Guzman, a 34-year-old mother of three who sought refuge in the gymnasium. “I hope the storm blows away from here as far as possible.” While officials expressed relief that the typhoon had not caused major damage in Tacloban and other central cities that were devastated by Haiyan, they warned that it was still barrelling across the southern tip of the main northern island of Luzon, where Manila is located. The storm was expected to blow away on Tuesday into the South China Sea. Many of those in eastern areas who evacuated to shelters started to troop back home after the typhoon had blown past their provinces, Philippine Red Cross secretary-general Gwendolyn Pang said. Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada said more than 5,000 residents of a shantytown on the edge of Manila Bay have been evacuated due to possible storm surges. Sandbags were stacked along a portion of a seawall to prevent possible storm surges in Manila Bay from spilling into a scenic boulevard and a tourist belt of restaurants and hotels. “We’ve prepared and trained for this,” Mr. Estrada told The Associated Press, adding that his greatest fear was widespread flooding. Metropolitan Manila has a population of more than 12 million people. Like villagers in the central Philippines, Mr. Estrada said Manila residents were readily moving to safety because of haunting memories of Haiyan. The strongest typhoon on record to hit land, Haiyan’s tsunami-like storm surges levelled entire villages and left more than 7,300 people dead or missing in November last year. Displaced villagers have been asked to return home from emergency shelters in provinces where the danger posed by the typhoon had waned, including Albay province, where more than half a million people were advised to leave evacuation sites. Nearly 12,000 villagers, however, will remain in government shelters in Albay because their homes lie near a restive volcano. President Benigno Aquino III has decided to cancel a trip to South Korea, where he and other Southeast Asian heads of state were to attend a diplomatic summit later this week, so he can deal with storm’s aftermath. He will send two Cabinet members to represent him at the event, presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said.

Keywords: Typhoon Hagupit, Philippines, Eastern Samar, Legazpi, Albay province, San Juan


  

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