CABANATUAN — Heavy rain deepened flood misery in farming and mountainous regions of the northern Philippines today, after the latest typhoon to hit the storm-ravaged nation killed at least 22 people. Koppu had weakened into a tropical storm and moved into the East Sea by today morning, but its huge rain band ensured downpours across swathes of the sodden north where tens of thousands of people were displaced. “The waters rose really fast, luckily we were rescued,” Lourdes Gatmaitan, 64, said after sleeping at a basketball court being used as an evacuation centre in Cabanatuan, a town about three hours’ drive north of Manila, the capital. Koppu, the second strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year, had impacted nearly 300,000 people across the main island of Luzon, the government’s disaster management agency said. Twenty-two people were killed in floods, landslides and boat accidents, as well as by flying debris, according to an AFP tally based on confirmed figures from national and local authorities. Floods as high as rooftops had covered some of the nation’s most important rice and corn farming regions in the flat plains north of Manila that are either side of a giant mountain range. While the… Read full this story
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