Death toll from Philippines storm rises to 10: official
Pastor Dale Morgan
Death toll from Philippines storm rises to 10: official*
MANILA, Nov 20 (AFP) Nov 20, 2007
The death toll from a tropical storm lashing the Philippines rose to 10
on Tuesday, officials said.
Landslides killed seven people on the north coast of the southern island
of Mindanao and the central islands, while three other people drowned in
the southern city of Iligan, they said.
Two other people were still missing while five were injured in the
landslides, the civil defence office said in a statement.
Packing winds of up to 65 kilometres (40 miles) an hour, the storm was
over the Sulu Sea on Tuesday after hitting the islands of Bohol, Cebu,
Negros and Panay overnight, the weather office said.
It was forecast to blow over into the South China Sea later Tuesday.