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MANILA: Nearly 9,000 people fled their homes in the Philippines as Typhoon Molave made landfall as it passed through provinces in the southern part of the main island of Luzon on Sunday (October 25), bringing heavy rain and high winds, authorities said. .
The disaster monitoring agency said it had received reports of damaged roads and bridges, flooding incidents and landslides in some areas, but so far there have been no casualties.
With maximum sustained winds of 130 km / h, Molave intensified to a typhoon as it moved westward and made landfall over San Miguel Island in Albay province early in the evening.
It made a second landfall in the municipality of Malinao also in Albay, the meteorological office said.
Some 5,518 people were evacuated to safer terrain, while 3,421 people took refuge with their families in areas outside of danger zones, the disaster monitoring agency said.
Molave follows Tropical Storm Saudel, which last week caused widespread flooding in Quezon province in the Calabarzon region, southeast of the capital Manila.
The meteorological office warned of storm surges of up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) in the coastal areas of the northern province of Samar, the Bicol region and the central and southern parts of the province of Quezon.
Tropical cyclone wind alerts were issued for several provinces in the Bicol and Calabarzon regions, and several provinces in the central Philippines, as well as for the Metro Manila and Central Luzon provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Bataan and Zambales.
Sea voyage operations were canceled in the danger zones, with 569 people stranded in ports due to high winds, according to the disaster monitoring agency.
After crossing the Philippine archipelago, Molave was expected to continue to intensify over the South China Sea, the meteorological bureau said.
