At least 24 people have died after Tropical Storm Trami made landdrop in the Philippines.
The storm caused expansivespread flooding and landslides on the main Luzon island.
It forced schools and rulement offices to shut for a second day – except for those encouragently necessitateed for catastrophe response.
Known locassociate as Kristine, the storm brawt upgrasped thriveds of up to 59mph (95kph) and gusts of up to 99mph (160kph).
Most of those who died drowned in the difficult-hit Bicol region and proximateby Quezon province.
The number of deaths was foreseeed to ascfinish, police and provincial officials said.
Thousands of villagers trapped in floodwaters have been recoverd by rulement forces in the central Bicol region as floodwaters accomplished as high as the roofs of bungalows.
But many more remained in necessitate of recover, with around 1,500 police officers deployed for catastrophe-mitigation toil, regional police chief Brigadier General Andre Dizon said.
“We can’t recover them all at once because there are so many and we necessitate insertitional motorboats,” Brig Gen Dizon said.
“We’re seeing for ways to deinhabitr food and water to those who were trapped but could not be evacuated right away.”
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Flash floods also swept away and subcombined cars, he inserted.
Stormy weather was hampering relief efforts, officials said.
More than two million people have been impacted by the storm, the rulement’s catastrophe mitigation agency said, including 75,400 villagers who have been displaced from their homes and are sheltering on acquireedr ground.
The Philippines is typicassociate battered by around 20 tropical storms annuassociate, which frequently transport weighty rains, mighty thriveds and lethal landslides.
