TYPHOON OMPONG UPDATE: 25 fatalities, thousands evacuated

At least 25 persons were reported dead while around 250,000 others were evacuated after typhoon Ompong battered northern Luzon.

Suspension of sea travels in Central Visayas was already lifted on Sunday.

Volunteers from the Philippine Red Cross distributed rice porridge to passengers left stranded at the ports of Cebu on Saturday night.

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