Evacuees in Albay rise to 141,000

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

LEGAZPI CITY – The number of evacuees in Albay province avoiding the wrath of Typhoon “Nina” (international name: Nock-ten) rose to 30,285 families or 141,935 persons Sunday afternoon.

Based on the data from Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office (Apsemo), 6,004 families or 30,020 persons of this number are in Polangui town while 6,669 families or 33,345 are in Pioduran. Fifty families or 250 were evacuated in Malinao, 132 families or 661 persons left homes in Legazpi City and 681 families or 3,731 are in evacuation centers in Manito.

Six hundred three families or 3,015 persons in Guinobatan; 605 families or 1,201 individuals in Ligao City; 140 families or 700 people in Bacacay; and 640 families or 2,882 persons in Tiwi were also evacuated.

Nina also displaced 8,468 families or 37,154 people in Camalig; 3,208 families or 16,040 persons in Sto. Domingo; 1,260 families or 6,303 individuals in Jovellar; and 1,825 families or 6,633 persons in Malilipot.

These families live in places prone to landslide, flooding, lahar flow, strong wind and storm surge. Evacuation efforts in other towns are still on-going. JE