This handout photo, taken and released on November 4, 2025, by the Bureau of Fire Protection-Toledo City station, shows personnel helping evacuate people on a makeshift boat made from a discarded refrigerator from their flooded homes following heavy rains brought about by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Toledo City, Cebu province, central Philippines. Residents sought refuge on rooftops, and cars floated through flooded streets on November 4 as Typhoon Kalmaegi battered the central Philippines, leaving at least two people dead. - AP
MANILA (dpa): At least seven people were killed and over 100,000 residents displaced in floods and other accidents caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines, local officials and the national disaster agency said on Tuesday.
Kalmaegi was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 195 km/h, the weather bureau said in its latest advisory. It made two landfalls in the provinces of Southern Leyte, at 12 am (1600 GMT on Monday) and Cebu at 5:10 am.
