At Least Eight Killed As Storm Hits Southern Philippines
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Channel: 7Edition · 2017 · News & Politics
Over in the Philippines, at least eight people were killed while six others remained missing after Tropical Storm tTembin struck the country's southern state on Friday. Unleashing floods and landslides across the region of 20 million people. According to authorities, a small landslide buried several houses in the town of Tugaya and killed seven people, with 5 others remained missing and believed trapped beneath the rubble. Another landslide buried 4 houses in the City of Valencia, killing an elderly woman, with another one person missing. Police and Civil defense officials reported heavy flooding in several Mindanao Towns and cities as Tembin weakened and swiftly moved across the region. Tembin first made landfall at the east coast of Mindanao, just before dawn with gusts of 125 kilometers an hour bringing torrential rain. The Philippines lies on the Pacific typhoon belt and endures an average of 20 typhoons and storms each year, but Mindanao is rarely hit by these Cyclones.
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