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
The number of evacuees trying to escape the wrath of typhoon “Nina” (international name: Nock-ten) rose to around 278,392 in Bicol Sunday night.
In Camarines Sur, 2,3980 families or 106,378 individuals, were evacuated from 231 barangays (villages) in 34 towns.
In Albay, 42,859 families or 171,652 persons have evacuated while 59 families or 362 persons have been displaced in Masbate City, Masbate. Masbate was still experience light to moderate rains after “Nina” made landfall over Catanduanes around 8 p.m. Sunday.
Evacuations in most of Bicol is still going on. – Ma. April Mier (@MaAprilMierINQ), Rey Anthony Ostria (@RAOstriaINQ), Juan Escandor Jr. @JuanEscandorINQ and Suzene Cajegas (@MSsuzene)