Residents wade through a flooded street in Kawit town, Cavite province on Oct. 30, 2022, a day after Tropical Storm Nalgae hit.
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The death toll from flooding and rain-induced landslides within the Philippines has climbed to 48, the country’s disaster agency said on Sunday, with 22 others recorded missing after tropical storm Nalgae inundated many parts of the archipelago.
Some 40 people were reported injured, while nearly 170,000 were sheltering in evacuation centers, government data showed, because the storm exited land areas after barreling across the country over the weekend, including the capital, Manila.
Many of the casualties were recorded within the southern autonomous region of Bangsamoro, where 40 died as a result of landslides, with 10 still missing, the disaster agency said.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Saturday ordered urgent aid distribution in hard-hit areas.
Nalgae, which made landfall five times, is that this 12 months’s second-most deadly cyclone to hit the Philippines, which sees a mean of 20 tropical storms annually.
The Philippine weather bureau said Nalgae was tracking westward and it could re-intensify right into a typhoon over the South China Sea while heading toward southern China.
