Video. Typhoon fails to stop wedding in flooded church in Philippines
Aguilar walked down the aisle with her dress floating behind her, while guests watched from flooded pews.
'We've been together for ten years. This is just another challenge we've overcome,' Verdillo said.
Despite the weather, friends and family joined the celebration.
More than 80,000 people remained in emergency shelters in the Philippines on Tuesday after floods, landslides and tidal surges caused by Typhoon Wipha.
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4 days ago
- Euronews
Video. Typhoon fails to stop wedding in flooded church in Philippines
Heavy rains intensified by Typhoon Wipha inundated Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan province, yet the couple pressed on with their long-planned ceremony. Aguilar walked down the aisle with her dress floating behind her, while guests watched from flooded pews. 'We've been together for ten years. This is just another challenge we've overcome,' Verdillo said. Despite the weather, friends and family joined the celebration. More than 80,000 people remained in emergency shelters in the Philippines on Tuesday after floods, landslides and tidal surges caused by Typhoon Wipha.
AFP
23-07-2025
- AFP
Old flooding clips misrepresented as deadly storm hits Philippines
One video, showing waste-filled water reaching the roofs of buildings, was viewed more than 56,000 times after it was shared on Facebook on July 18, 2025. "Storm Crising. The first floors of these houses are already flooded," reads its Tagalog-language caption, using the local name for Tropical Storm Wipha which skirted the country on the same day. A second clip, which similarly shows muddy water lapping at the roofs of houses, was shared more than 51,000 times after it was posted on Facebook on July 22. "Pray for Philippines, 4 Days straight Rain," reads its caption. At least six people died and another six were missing after Wipha swept past the country on July 18, according to the Southeast Asian nation's disaster agency, with a fresh storm brewing off the coast expected to bring continued heavy rain (archived link). Image Screenshots of the misleading Facebook posts captured on July 22 and July 23, with X marks added by AFP The clips were also shared in similar Facebook posts where they were passed off as recent. The videos, however, depict flooding that occurred during deadly storms that struck the archipelago in 2024. Typhoon Gaemi A reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the first misleadingly shared clip led to a nearly identical video shared on July 24, 2024 on the Facebook page of Philippine radio station SMNI DZRD 981 (archived link). "WATCH: Floodwaters reaching the roof of houses along Barangay Lambakin, Marilao, Bulacan," reads part of its Tagalog-language caption. The false posts used a mirrored version of the July 2024 video. Image Screenshot comparison of the falsely shared clip (left) and the July 2024 video (right), with the date highlighted by AFP The radio station credited the video to Karen Alvarez, who told AFP she filmed the video in July 2024. "I am the owner of the video. This was one year ago from Typhoon Carina," she said on July 22, using the local name for Typhoon Gaemi. "The (circulating posts) are only reuploading my video." The state-run Philippine News Agency, which also shared a screenshot from Alvarez's video, reported that more than 52 villages in Bulacan -- a province north of the capital Manila -- were inundated with floodwaters due to Gaemi (archived link). The typhoon triggered floods and landslides that killed at least 40 people in the Philippines, before making landfall in Taiwan and China (archived link). While the original footage is no longer active on Alvarez's Facebook page, similar clips she took show the same neighbourhood devastated by the typhoon (archived here and here). Image Screenshots of clips posted on Facebook by Karen Alvarez on July 24, 2024 Tropical Storm Trami A separate reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the second misleadingly shared clip found it was also posted by video licensing agency Newsflare in late October 2024 (archived link). Its description says it was captured in Camarines Sur province in the southeastern part of Luzon island during Tropical Storm Trami. Philippine media outlet GMA News also shared the same footage of the storm, which killed at least 150 people and forced nearly half a million to flee their homes as it brought heavy rains that triggered widespread flooding and landslides (archived here and here). Image Screenshot comparison of the false post (L) and footage from Newsflare The Philippines is hit by an average of 20 major storms a year and scientists have warned that typhoons are becoming stronger due to human-induced climate change (archived link). AFP has repeatedly fact-checked misrepresented visuals that circulate when disasters strike.
AFP
23-07-2025
- AFP
Old clip falsely linked to fatal tour boat accident in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay
"Vietnam: A tourist boat sank while traveling in Ha Long Bay after facing strong sudden winds from storm Wipha, causing 34 fatalities,' reads the Thai-language caption on an X post dated July 19, 2025. The caption continues: "Authorities are urgently searching for dozens of missing individuals." The post includes a video of a boat being lashed by wind and rain before slowly tilting to the right and capsizing. At least 35 people were killed when the tourist boat capsized during a storm on July 19 in what some have called Ha Long Bay's worst disaster (archived link). Image Screenshot of the false X post, with a red X added by AFP However, local media quoted the director of the country's National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting saying the thunderstorms in northern Vietnam were not caused by the influence of Tropical Storm Wipha in the South China Sea. The same video of the boat sinking was linked to the July disaster elsewhere on X and Facebook, as well as in English and Burmese-language posts. But a reverse image search on Google found the video was published online months earlier in reports about a different storm. The footage was published on the verified Facebook page of Vietnamese media outlet VTC News on September 7, 2024 with the caption "Tourist boat capsizing in Ha Long Bay" (archived link). Image Screenshot comparison between the false X post (L) and the video posted on Facebook by VTC News Other Vietnamese media outlets published the clip in reports from September 7 and 8, 2024 about storm number three -- the local name for Typhoon Yagi (archived links here and here). The super typhoon killed at least 197 people in Vietnam as its associated heavy rains brought flooding and caused landslides. Thousands more had to be evacuated as the storm disrupted export lines across the Red River delta (archived link). Shipwreck Log, a blog that documents shipwrecks and maritime accidents, reported that several boats were damaged or sunk as Typhoon Yagi made a landfall in Vietnam and included the same footage of the black and white ship sinking (archived link). The tourist ferry that capsized in July 2025 can be seen in AFP photos that show a blue and white vessel with different railings.
