Tropical storm nears Taiwan, thousands evacuated • FRANCE 24 English

Taiwan has evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of today’s arrival of a weakened Typhoon Fun Wong after it killed 27 people in the Philippines. Already, there have been record downpours on the east coast of Taiwan, unleashing floods that rose neck high in places. Businesses and schools shut in most southern areas of the island with already 50 people reported injured. More than a thousand homes flooded in a harbor town there as well of Suo. We’re going to talk to our regional correspondent Yan Kimman in Broomi who joins us now from Beijing. First of all, Yang, bring us up to date with all the latest information that you’re hearing from uh from there where you are in Beijing. Well, we’ve been tracking the movement of this typhoon for the last few days and we’re waiting to see what kind of an impact it would have when those winds and those rains really started to hit the east coast of Taiwan. the east coast of Taiwan, of course, very susceptible to typhoons. The Taiwanese authorities, they’re used to dealing with these kinds of things. And ahead of time, they’d evacuated some 8,000 odd people out of the areas that they deemed could be at risk of flooding, could be at risk of landslides. And that’s exactly what we’ve seen. The East Coast is mountainous. We’ve seen videos of flooded streets up to neck high. Soldiers working to try and coordinate rescue efforts. Some 51 people have been injured so far. Those are the reports we’re hearing. Thankfully, Stuart, no dead being reported so far. And that is because after the typhoon passed over the Philippines and made its way towards Taiwan, it seemed to lose a little bit of its strength. And so, this isn’t the strongest typhoon that we’ve seen hit Taiwan. I’m sure the authorities and the people on the east coast of Taiwan in Elan, especially the city that’s been hit the hardest, will be very thankful about that. Yeah. In the meantime, of course, yeah, we were talking at the weekend or the beginning of the week about that situation in the Philippines. I mean, the cleanup underway, but it’s it’s going to be a long job, isn’t it? It’s a completely different story in the Philippines really. That same typhoon that we were just talking about, when it made its way across the Philippines, it left some 27 people dead. It left 1.4 million people internally displaced in the Philippines. can only imagine a largecale movement like that of people how chaotic, how damaging that can have been to people’s homes. And not only that, it comes just a few days after another typhoon that left more than 220 people dead in the Philippines. So, a big impact on the archipelago in the last few days. Authorities have distributed more than 110,000 food packets to try and deal with the issues that people have been facing with getting food in the center of the Philippines. And we also know that the Philippine military is out on the streets trying to clear the debris and trying to get the country back to normal. Yan, thanks very much. Yan Kim Brunie joining us live there from Beijing.

Taiwan has evacuated over 8,300 people ahead of Typhoon Fung-wong’s arrival. The storm, expected to hit on Wednesday, has already brought record rain and flooding to the island’s east coast. At least 51 people have been injured, and over 1,000 homes were flooded in Suao, which saw 648 mm of rainfall, a record for November. FRANCE 24’s Jan Camenzind Broomby has the latest.
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