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    Typhoon Man-yi has killed 7 in the Philippines and is compounding the crisis due to back-to-back storms

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    Jim Gomez
    | Associated Press

    Manila, Philippines — Typhoon Man-yi killed at least seven people in a landslide, destroyed homes and displaced a large number of villagers before exploding in the northern Philippines, deepening the crisis caused by multiple back-to-back storms, they said on Monday the officials.

    Man-yi was one of the strongest of six major storms to hit the northern Philippines in less than a month and had sustained winds of up to 195 kilometers (125 miles) per hour when it slammed into the province on Saturday eastern island of Catanduanes. night.

    US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila and offered his prayers, announcing an additional $1 million in humanitarian aid for typhoon victims. He told Marcos that he had authorized US troops to help Philippine forces provide rescue aid.

    Torrential rains and strong winds unleashed by Man-yi triggered a landslide in the town of Ambaguio in northern Nueva Vizcaya province on Monday morning, which buried a house and killed seven people, including children, and injured three others inside, said the head of the regional police, Brig. Gen. Antonio P. Marallag Jr. said.

    Army troops, police and villagers were scrambling to search for three other people believed to be buried in the avalanche of mud, boulders and uprooted trees, Marallag said.

    Disaster response officials said they were checking whether the deaths of two villagers in a motorcycle accident and an electrocution were directly linked to Man-yi’s attack so they could be added to the death toll. They said a separate search was underway for a couple and their child after their cohabana was swept away by raging rivers in northern Nueva Ecija province.

    More than a million people were affected by the typhoon and two previous storms, including nearly 700,000 who fled their homes and moved to emergency shelters or the homes of relatives, according to the Civil Defense Official.

    Nearly 8,000 homes were damaged or destroyed and more than 100 towns and cities were affected by power outages due to downed power poles, it said.

    In the worst-hit province of Camarines, officials pleaded for more aid after strong winds and rains damaged several homes and cut power and water supply across the province, along with cellphone connections in many areas. said provincial intelligence officer Camille Gianan.

    Welfare officials have transported food aid, drinking water and other aid, but more is needed in the coming months, Gianan said. Many villagers will need building materials to rebuild their homes, she said.

    “They hadn’t recovered from the previous storms when the super typhoon hit,” Gianan told The Associated Press. “It was one calamity after another.”

    The rare number of back-to-back storms and typhoons that hit Luzon – the country’s largest and most populous island – in just three weeks have killed more than 160 people, affected 9 million people and caused so much damage to communities, infrastructure and agricultural land. that the Philippines may have to import more rice, a staple food.

    In an emergency meeting as Man-yi approached, Marcos asked his cabinet and provincial officials to prepare for the “worst case scenario.”

    At least 26 domestic airports and two international airports were briefly closed, and ferry and cargo services between the islands were suspended due to rough seas, stranding thousands of passengers and commuters. Most transport services have now resumed, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and the coast guard.

    The US, a Manila treaty ally, along with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei provided cargo planes and other storm aid to aid government disaster response agencies. Last month, the first major storm, Trami, left dozens dead after dumping one to two months’ worth of rain in just 24 hours on several cities.

    The Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and storms every year. It is often hit by earthquakes and has more than a dozen active volcanoes, making it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world.

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