Jubilee Post News & Views
Manila: Tourist enjoying holidays on the eve of X-mas on Wednesday were gripped by the typhoon Phanfone, killing at least 16 people in several parts of country. Known for its beautiful white-sand beaches and typhoon prone geographical site was fighting the winds that reached 200 kilometers (125 miles) an hour, touring rooftops and houses and ripping of electrical poles whatever it in the central Philippines.
In the most brutal typhoon hit people living in villages and towns in Visayas, the central third of the Philippines. Mobile phones and remained down on Thursday. “Still communication lines are down. Electricity is still down,” Jonathan Pabliti, police chief in Malay town in Aklan province said.
Tourists at the airport are unable get flights, while ferry services between Boracay and Aklan remain closed on Thursday, the main way to travel from the holiday island. “We have no news from coast guard if ships were allowed to sail. Since the 24th.. all those going to the island and coming from the island weren’t able to cross.”
“Everything with in 100 meters of the airport looks broken. There are a lot of frustrated people at the airport as flights have been cancelled. Taxi’s are still running but windy and still raining so no one wants to leave the airport.
Typhoon Phanfone was seen taking the similar path, though much weaker than Super Typhoon Haiyan the deadliest storm recorded in the history of Philippines in which more than 7,300 people died or went missing in 2013.
The Philippines is the first major landmass facing the Pacific typhoon belt, and is hit by an average of about 20 storms a year.
