The resumption of classes in this typhoon-devastated municipality hit a snag Thursday after Tropical Depression “Auring” dumped heavy rains and forced hundreds of families to evacuate overnight.
A passenger vessel ran aground Thursday after being hammered by strong winds and waves spawned by a tropical depression, but all 228 passengers—many of them students returning to this university town from the holidays—were rescued unharmed, authorities said.
For the second time in two months, a low pressure area (LPA) predicted to have little chance of gaining strength turned into a tropical depression as it swung across Northern Mindanao Thursday.
