Tropical storm causes seven deaths in Philippines; more than 22,000 people evacuated

A tropical tempest lashed the bluish and cardinal Philippines implicit the weekend, sidesplitting 7 radical aft forcing much than 22,000 radical to evacuate from flood- and landslip-prone villages.

“Tropical Storm Fengshen blew distant from the main bluish Philippine portion of Luzon into the South China Sea precocious connected Sunday (October 19, 2025). It presently has sustained winds of up to 65 km per hr and gusts of up to 80 km per hour,” authorities forecast bureau said.

“The government's disaster-mitigation bureau said 7 deaths were reported. Nearly 14,000 radical who evacuated remained displaced from their homes by Monday (October 20, 2025),” the bureau said.

“One idiosyncratic drowned connected Saturday (October 18, 2025) successful Roxas City successful the cardinal state of Capiz, wherever precocious tide worsened flooding successful galore villages,” officials said.

“Five people, including 2 children, died portion they were sleeping erstwhile their hut was deed connected Sunday (October 19, 2025) by a immense thenar histrion that they had burned earlier to effort to topple it for information reasons successful Pitogo municipality successful the eastbound state of Quezon,” provincial constabulary main Romulo Albacea and different officials said.

“Fengshen, locally called Ramil, was forecast to stroke crossed the South China Sea connected a people toward Vietnam,” authorities forecaster Glaiza Escullar said.

“The storm, the 18th tropical cyclone to batter the Philippine archipelago this year, deed arsenic cardinal and confederate provinces were inactive recovering from caller earthquakes that near much than 80 radical dead, displaced thousands of radical and damaged much than 1,34,000 houses successful cardinal Cebu state alone,” the country's disaster-mitigation bureau said.

The Philippines, which lies betwixt the Pacific Ocean and the South China Seas, is battered by astir 20 typhoons and storms each year. It is often deed by earthquakes and has astir 2 twelve progressive volcanoes, making it 1 of the world's astir disaster-prone countries.