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Residents of Sitio Pantalan in Tumauini, Isabela wait for aid and rescue boats on October 25, 2024, a day after severe tropical storm made landfall in the area. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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KRISTINE

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172991546358920241025-kristine-tumauini-isabela-flood-JC-11.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Residents of Sitio Pantalan in Tumauini, Isabela wait for aid and rescue boats on October 25, 2024, a day after severe tropical storm made landfall in the area. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Residents of Sitio Pantalan in Tumauini, Isabela wait for aid and rescue boats on October 25, 2024, a day after severe tropical storm made landfall in the area. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span>MANILA -- Rescuers in the northern Philippines raced Saturday to reach people still stranded in areas made inaccessible by flooding from Tropical Storm Kristine [international name: Trami], which has displaced nearly half a million people and killed at least 87.</div><p>In the hard-hit Bicol region, residents trapped on the roofs and upper floors of their homes were still awaiting desperately needed assistance, officials told AFP.</p><p>&quot;The floods have yet to subside. Calls asking for help are still pouring here,&quot; regional police director Andre Dizon told AFP.</p><p>&quot;We need to rescue them as soon as possible because starvation can be a problem. We&#x27;re hearing reports that children are already getting sick.&quot;</p><p>In the region&#x27;s Camarines Sur province, food and drinking water was in increasingly short supply as some areas remained completely submerged and difficult to access, he added.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/10/25/at-least-29-dead-9-injured-in-bicol-region-due-to-kristine-police-1831">READ: At least 29 dead, 9 injured in Bicol region due to ‘Kristine’: police</a></div><p>President Ferdinand Marcos visited the area Saturday to inspect the damage before meeting with provincial officials.</p><p>Trami&#x27;s death toll, meanwhile, inched higher, with Bicol and Batangas province south of Manila accounting for the majority of fatalities.</p><p>Police have recorded 31 deaths in Bicol, most due to drowning.</p><p>The number of confirmed dead in Batangas stood at 51, provincial police chief Jacinto Malinao told AFP on Saturday, with at least 22 people missing.</p><p>Five more deaths have been confirmed in other provinces, bringing the total to 87, according to an AFP tally based on official police and disaster agency sources.</p><p>In Batangas, two hours south of the capital, rescuers were using backhoes and shovels to dig through mud as high as high as three meters (10 feet) in a desperate search for the missing in areas hit by landslides.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/10/25/storm-kristine-leaves-47-dead-in-batangas-2047">READ: Storm Kristine leaves 47 dead in Batangas</a></div><p>AFP reporters who visited the province on Friday saw roads blocked by felled trees, vehicles half-submerged in mud and homes severely damaged by flash flooding.</p><p>&quot;We are desperate to find people in safe condition. Deep inside, I am hoping that many of those reported missing are not under the mud and boulders, but simply went somewhere without telling others,&quot; Malinao, the police chief, said.</p><p>The National Disaster Agency reported Saturday that about 495,000 people have been displaced by the flooding, which has submerged hundreds of villages in swathes of the northern Philippines.</p><p>About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the archipelago nation or its surrounding waters each year, damaging homes and infrastructure and killing dozens of people.</p><p>A recent study showed that storms in the Asia-Pacific region are increasingly forming closer to coastlines, intensifying more rapidly and lasting longer over land due to climate change.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/viwJVWCU_Y8?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div></div>

<p>Rescuers in the northern Philippines raced Saturday to reach people still stranded in areas made inaccessible by flooding from Tropical Storm Kristine [international name: Trami], which has displaced nearly half a million people and killed at least 87.</p>

Rescuers in the northern Philippines raced Saturday to reach people still stranded in areas made inaccessible by flooding from Tropical Storm Kristine [international name: Trami], which has displaced nearly half a million people and killed at least 87.

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