“Tropical Storm Fengshen blew away from the primary northern Philippine area of Luzon into the South China Sea late on Sunday (October 19, 2025). It at the moment has sustained winds of as much as 65 km per hour and gusts of as much as 80 km per hour,” authorities forecast company mentioned.
“The authorities’s disaster-mitigation company mentioned seven deaths had been reported. Nearly 14,000 individuals who evacuated remained displaced from their houses by Monday (October 20, 2025),” the company mentioned.
“One individual drowned on Saturday (October 18, 2025) in Roxas City within the central province of Capiz, the place excessive tide worsened flooding in lots of villages,” officers mentioned.
“Five folks, together with two youngsters, died whereas they had been sleeping when their hut was hit on Sunday (October 19, 2025) by an enormous palm tree that that they had burned earlier than to attempt to topple it for security causes in Pitogo city within the japanese province of Quezon,” provincial police chief Romulo Albacea and different officers mentioned.
“Fengshen, domestically referred to as Ramil, was forecast to blow throughout the South China Sea on a course towards Vietnam,” state forecaster Glaiza Escullar mentioned.
“The storm, the 18th tropical cyclone to batter the Philippine archipelago this 12 months, hit as central and southern provinces had been nonetheless recovering from current earthquakes that left greater than 80 folks useless, displaced 1000’s of individuals and broken greater than 1,34,000 homes in central Cebu province alone,” the nation’s disaster-mitigation company mentioned.
The Philippines, which lies between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Seas, is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms every year. It is commonly hit by earthquakes and has about two dozen lively volcanoes, making it one of many world’s most disaster-prone nations.
Published – October 20, 2025 04:16 pm IST
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