Tropical Hurricane Nalge killed 80 People In Philippines
Tropical Hurricane Nalge killed 80 people in the Philippines. Heavy rain and landslides after Hurricane Nalge, 80 killed, 31 missing.
The death toll from floods and rain-induced landslides in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Nalge has risen from 47 to 80.
According to the country’s disaster agency, 31 people are reported missing. About 48 people have been injured. The President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has expressed grief over the disaster.
According to a media report, more than half the deaths were recorded in the southern autonomous region of Bangsamoro, where 10 people are reported missing and about 48 people have been injured.
Tropical Hurricane Nalge occurred on October 30, 2022, which residents of Kusiong village in the Philippines mistook for a tsunami, due to which they ran towards the mountain and were buried alive there.
The damage to infrastructure was estimated at 384 million pesos ($6.62 million) due to heavy rain and strong winds.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., scheduled to conduct an aerial survey of submerged villages in Cavite province near the capital Manila on Monday, expressed grief over the number of deaths, particularly in Maguindanao province of the Bangsamoro region.
Hurricane Nalge is the second deadliest cyclone of the year to hit the Philippines.
The Philippines receives an average of 20 tropical storms annually, and the Meteorological Bureau has said that the storm will move beyond the Philippines from Monday.
People mistook the storm as a tsunami, and misunderstanding took the lives of many.
Residents of Kusiong village in the Philippines mistook Sunday’s storm as a tsunami, due to which they ran towards the mountain and were buried alive there.
An official gave this information on Sunday. He said the villagers got this misunderstanding because Kuseong had earlier suffered a devastating tsunami.
At least 18 bodies have so far been rescued from a swath of mud in the village of Kusiong in the southern province of Maguindanao, one of the worst-hit by tropical storm ‘Nalge’, which devastated the Philippines’ northwest coast early Sunday. have removed.
