MANILA – A typhoon swelled rivers and flooded low-lying areas as it passed over the storm-battered northeast Philippines, where rescuers were deployed early Thursday to help people flee the rising waters.The typhoon passed north of Manila between Bulacan and Pampanga provinces, toppling trees and knocking out power.
Officials had said previously that nearly 200,000 people had been evacuated, some of them forcibly, from vulnerable coastal and low-lying areas.Rescue teams were deployed to flooded areas in Rizal province near the capital, Adm.
George Ursabia, the coast guard chief, told DZBB radio.From the Rizal town of Rodriguez, resident Yolanda Laude called the radio station to ask to be rescued. “We’re all on the roof.