Tropical storm Lekima leaves 10 dead or missing in Philippines
Pastor Dale Morgan
Tropical storm Lekima leaves 10 dead or missing in Philippines*
MANILA, Sept 30 (AFP) Sep 30, 2007
Tropical storm Lekima killed nine people and left another missing in the
Philippines after unleashing landslides, floods and big waves, rescuers
said Sunday.
The weather bureau here lowered all cyclone alerts on the main island of
Luzon as the storm dissipated into a weaker tropical depression in the
South China Sea.
A landslide buried two houses in a mountain village near the town of
Hingyon late Saturday, killing eight people, the civil defence office
here said.
One other family member was missing while a nine year-old boy was
injured, it said in an updated report.
Meanwhile, a military rescue unit recovered the body of a drowning
victim in northern Manila, it said.
The storm swept across Luzon with maximum sustained winds of 65
kilometres (40 miles) an hour on Saturday, shutting down ferry services,
swelling dams and rivers, and unleashing floods that displaced some
3,400 people, the government agency said.
Huge waves also smashed onto the Sarangani coast of the main southern
island of Mindanao, damaging 29 houses in the village of San Nicolas.
Ferry services between Luzon and the central islands resumed Sunday, but
small fishing boats and other craft were warned to stay in port due to
big waves.