The most affected areas by tropical storm Son-Tinh have been the provinces of Bataan, Pampanga and Zambales, located in the center of the island of Luzon, where 7,437 of the evacuees are concentrated.
Manila. About eight thousand people have had to be evacuated from their homes in the last 24 hours in the Philippines because of the floods caused by the tropical storm Son-Tinh.
The National Council for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (Ndrrmc) indicated that the emergency services attended to 7,880 people, who were given blankets and food, and of these 647 were housed in shelters.
The areas most affected by the storm were the provinces of Bataan, Pampanga and Zambales, located in the center of the island of Luzon, where 7,437 of the evacuees are concentrated, according to the same agency.
In Manila, capital of the Philippines, there are some 473 people who have had to leave their homes because of the flooding of the waters in several districts of the capital, such as Quezon, Mandaluyong or Marikina, where the river with the same name rose to 17 meters and went into risk of overflowing.
Although Son-Tinh left the zone of responsibility of the Philippines yesterday morning, the meteorological agency Pagasa keeps the orange warning by rains in the provinces of Bataan and Zambales, before the formation of a new tropical depression that approaches the zone by the East.
Pagasa said it is likely that this depression, baptized by the service as Inday, will become a tropical storm in the next 24 hours, and warned of the high risk of flooding in that part of Luzon, although it is not expected to touch land in the Philippines. .
The regions of Manila, Rizal, Pampanga, Tarlac, Bulacan and Nueva Ecija are on yellow alert, which means that heavy and moderate rains may occur in the coming hours and there is a risk of flooding in the lower areas.
At 10:00 am. On Wednesday (09:00 p.m. Tuesday in Peru), the center of Inday was located 660 kilometers southeast of Batanes, the northernmost tip of the Philippines, and was traveling eastward at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour.
The tropical depression draws sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour with gusts of 65 kilometers per hour.