Across Asia: Philippines
China Daily | Updated: 2008-05-20 07:39
Tropical storm kills 12
A tropical storm yesterday swirled out to sea off the northern Philippines after killing 12 people, destroying homes and flooding rice paddies, weather and disaster officials said.
Halong, a tropical storm with winds of 95 km per hour at its center, lost strength as it made landfall on Luzon's northwestern region on Sunday, and was headed to southern Japan by early Tuesday.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council reported 12 people had died, about half of them pinned down by fallen trees or hit by flying debris in the provinces of Pangasinan, La Union and Zambales. About 35,000 people were affected by the storm, most of them marooned by floods and landslides.
(China Daily 05/20/2008 page23)
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