Boats bring food, safe passage for Philippine flood victims


An aerial view shows residents riding in a wooden boat as they wade in a flooded street at a village in Calumpit town, Bulacan province, north of Manila on July 25, 2025, after a river over-flowed due to heavy rains brought about by Typhoon Co-May. Rescuers in the northern Philippines picked up residents stranded by flooding and delivered supplies by boat July 25, as Typhoon Co-May was downgraded to a tropical storm hours after making landfall on the west coast. - AFP

BULACAN, Philippines: Rescuers in the northern Philippines picked up residents stranded by flooding and delivered supplies by boat Friday (July 25), as Typhoon Co-May was downgraded to a tropical storm hours after making landfall.

Schools remained closed and electricity was down in swathes of the archipelago nation's biggest island after days of monsoon rains that have killed 25 and left eight missing across the country, according to the natural disaster agency.

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