Über Verletzte und Sachschäden auf den Philippinen lagen zunächst keine Angaben vor. Zuvor waren über 100.000 Menschen in Sicherheit gebracht worden.
25.12.16, 14:05
Der erwartet heftige Taifun ist am Sonntag in den Philippinen auf Land getroffen. Das Auge des Sturms "Nock-Ten" erreichte die abgelegene Insel Catanduanes am Abend (Ortszeit) mit Windgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 235 Stundenkilometern, wie der staatliche Wetterdienst mitteilte.
Über Verletzte und Sachschäden lagen zunächst keine Angaben vor. Zuvor waren über 100.000 Menschen in Sicherheit gebracht worden.
Auf der Insel Catanduanes wurden mehr als 12.000 Bewohner der Küstengebiete aufgefordert, sich in Sicherheit zu begeben, wie die Provinzregierung am Sonntag mitteilte. In der nahe gelegenen Provinz Camarines Sur in der Region Bicol wurden nach Angaben der Behörden fast 90.000 Menschen aus der Gefahrenzone gebracht.
Residents sit inside a classroom at the Central Elementary School which was turned into an evacuation centre in Santo Domingo, Albay province on December 25, 2016 due to approaching Typhoon Nock-Ten.
Thousands of residents were fleeing coastal and other hazardous areas in the eastern Philippines on December 25 as a powerful typhoon barrelled towards the disaster-prone archipelago.
/ AFP PHOTO / CHARISM SAYAT
Montag in Manila
Die Zivilschutzbehörde in Bicol hatte zuvor mitgeteilt, dass fast eine halbe Million Menschen in den vom Taifun bedrohten Gebieten leben. Das Taifun-Warnzentrum der USA rechnete mit Windgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 231 Stundenkilometern und Böen von bis zu 278 Stundenkilometern.
Am Montag soll der Taifun die philippinische Hauptinsel Luzon mitsamt der Hauptstadt Manila erreichen. Der philippinische Wetterdienst warnte, der Taifun könne an der Ostküste bis zu zweieinhalb Meter hohe Wellen verursachen. Heftiger Regen könne zu Erdrutschen und Überschwemmungen führen.
Die Philippinen werden regelmäßig von heftigen Stürmen heimgesucht. Im Jahresdurchschnitt gibt es rund 20 starke Taifune. Im November 2013 waren bei dem Super-Taifun "Haiyan" 7.350 Menschen auf den Philippinen ums Leben gekommen. Ganze Städte wurden zerstört.
epa02848517 An aerial view aboard a Philippine Airforce chopper over flooded community brought by Storm Nock-Ten in the town of Nabua, Camarines Sur province, southern Manila, Philippines on 30 July 2011. The death toll from a tropical storm that battered the Philippines earlier in the week rose to 50, as rescuers and aid workers penetrated hard-to-reach areas inundated by floods and blocked by landslides, the government said 30 July. The Office of Civil Defence said 25 people remained missing and feared dead in the aftermath of the Nock-Ten storm, which caused heavy rain and triggered massive floods and landslides, especially in the eastern Bicol region. The weather bureau was closely monitoring another storm (Muifa) which approached on 29 July and was moving toward the northern provinces. EPA/KIT RECEBIDO
A military helicopter flies over a flooded village in Camarines Sur in central Philippines July 30, 2011. Typhoon Nock-Ten locally named as typhoon "Juaning" death toll rose to 52 people on Sunday and about a million people were displaced due to flooding after a three-day rampage across the northeastern Philippines, as another storm is approaching, local media reports and disaster officials said. Picture taken July 30, 2011. REUTERS/Rhaydz Barcia (PHILIPPINES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
A boy carries his younger sister as he wades through floodwaters in Malabon city, north of Manila, after Department of Education officially suspended school classes due to continuous rainfall brought by Typhoon Nock-Ten or locally known as Juaning in Manila July 26, 2011. Seven people were reported killed and eleven fishermen went missing in the central Philippines as Typhoon Nock-Ten battered the main luzon island, forcing schools to close and grounding domestic flights and ferry services, disaster officials said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER)
TOPSHOT - Residents are assisted into a truck after the local government implemented preemptive evacuations at Barangay Matnog, Daraga, Albay province on December 25, 2016, due to the approaching typhoon Nock-Ten.
Babies, toddlers and old people were loaded onto military trucks in the Philippines on December 25 as thousands fled from the path of a powerful typhoon barrelling towards the disaster-prone archipelago. / AFP PHOTO
Residents celebrating Christmas Day at the evacuation center take a break before Typhoon Nock-ten is expected to strike Legazpi City, Albay province, central Philippines December 25, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE
TOPSHOT - Young residents sit in a truck after the local government implemented preemptive evacuations at Barangay Matnog, Daraga, Albay province on December 25, 2016, due to the approaching typhoon Nock-Ten.
Babies, toddlers and old people were loaded onto military trucks in the Philippines on December 25 as thousands fled from the path of a powerful typhoon barrelling towards the disaster-prone archipelago. / AFP PHOTO
epa02852381 A Filipino on a bike crosses floodwaters in Quezon City, east of Manila, Philippines 02 August 2011. At least 61 people were killed in back-to-back storms in the Philippines, according to a government agency. The Office of Civil Defence (OCD) said four people were killed in the latest storm to have pummeled the country since 28 July. Typhoon Muifa with maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 210 kph did not make landfall but caused heavy rains. The OCD said the death toll in Tropical Storm Nock-Ten, which hit the Philippines from 26 to 28 July, rose to 57 as more bodies of missing fishermen were recovered. EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Stranded passengers from Tabaco port are housed temporarily at the Tacabo National High School in Tabaco City, Albay province on December 24, 2016, after their seafaring vessels were prohibited from sailing ahead of typhoon Nock-Ten's expected arrival.
Philippine authorities began evacuating thousands of people and shut down dozens of ports on December 24 as a strong typhoon threatened to wallop the country's east coast on Christmas Day. Nock-Ten is expected to be packing winds of between 203-250 kilometres per hour (126-155 miles per hour) when it crosses over Catanduanes, a remote island of 250,000 people in the Bicol region, late Sunday, the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center said.
/ AFP PHOTO / Charism SAYAT
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