Typhoon Ineng kills 26 in PH, now threatening Japan

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Typhoon Ineng kills 26 in PH, now threatening Japan

AFP

Goni hit parts of the northern Philippines hard over the weekend, destroying nearly a thousand houses and forcing more than 12,000 people to flee, officials say

MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon Ineng (international codename Goni) killed at least 26 people in landslides and floods in the Philippines, officials said Monday, August 24, as the storm bore down on Japan. 

Rescue teams clawed away at a mountainside near the remote mining town of Mankayan in the country’s north, after recovering the bodies of 13 miners buried by a landslide that struck the area two days earlier. 

“The landslide buried miners sheltering in huts used as a rest area. The slope collapsed after being saturated with rain,” Ivy Carasi, a spokeswoman for the civil defense office in the region, told Agence France-Presse. 

Officials did not elaborate on how many miners were still missing in the landslide’s wake. 

“We don’t really know how many more miners are missing because the numbers compiled by the police and local government do not tally,” said Carasi. 

Ineng hit parts of the northern Philippines hard over the weekend, destroying nearly a thousand houses and forcing more than 12,000 people to flee, the civil defense office said. 

More than a dozen other people in the mountainous region were killed by landslides, surging waters and a falling tree, the civil defense office in Manila added. 

Apart from the unspecified number of missing Mankayan miners, 4 people were still unaccounted for elsewhere in the country, including a 5-year-old girl. 

The child disappeared after a river overflowed and swept away her home near the coastal town of Subic late Sunday, Augst 23, killing her two siblings aged 2 and 9 months, Vic Otero, a local civil defense official, told Agence France-Presse. 

“The family had been advised to evacuate as early as last week. Apparently they did not heed the warning,” Otero said, adding their parents survived. 

Ineng is the ninth out of an average of 20 storms that hit the Philippines each year. 

Packing gusts up to 252 kilometers (160 miles) per hour, the storm Monday was moving just north of the main island in Japan’s Okinawa island chain.

Five people sustained minor injuries as it brushed over Japan’s Ishigakijima island, according to the country’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

The storm was on course  directly to hit Kyushu island Tuesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.  

It caused power outages to 21,400 households in the southern region Monday morning, Okinawa Electric Power reported. 

Thousands in Taiwan were evacuated from outlying islands and mountainous areas as a precaution, including 1,500 from the hot spring region of Wulai just outside Taipei.  – Rappler.com

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