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Typhoon kills 17 in Philippines
Sun Oct 4, 2009 2:24am EDT
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MANILA (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon slowly moved out to sea on Sunday after slamming into the remote northeastern Philippines and killing 17 people, but damage and flooding, while extensive, were less widespread than feared.
Typhoon Parma, the strongest typhoon to hit the country since 2006, was north of the main Luzon island and was moving northwest very slowly, the weather bureau said.
It had weakened, with maximum sustained winds of 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts of up to 150 kph.
Authorities in Taiwan have issued a warning as Parma could either enter its southern waters or blow west into the South China Sea.
"The destruction in our infrastructure and agriculture is huge," said Alvaro Antonio, the governor of the northern Cagayan province that bore the brunt of the storm. "Wide areas are still under water, including ricelands about to be harvested."
The system brought rain across Luzon on Saturday but not as heavily as expected, especially along the densely populated west coast where floods in and around Manila from Typhoon Ketsana eight days ago killed nearly 300 people.
Officials had feared rain would spark fresh floods in Manila since reservoirs and dams around the capital are full and the sewage system is inundated with mud and rubbish brought by the previous week's deluge.
But rains in Benguet province set off landslides in which at least 12 people were killed, police said. The victims included seven small-scale miners who were sleeping in a shelter when they were buried by one landslide, said provincial police chief Loreto Espeneli.
Five people were killed elsewhere.
Fallen trees and floods cut off roads in Cagayan and neighboring Isabela province. Soldiers, in rubber boats and armed with chain saws, started to clear roads and rescue marooned communities, officials said.
STRONG WINDS
Antonio said many areas remained inaccessible due to power outages and disruption in communications.
"Winds are still strong, but no more rains. Our relief works are ongoing," he said.
About 5,000 people remained in temporary shelter areas. More than 130,000 people in the country's eastern seaboard had fled their homes ahead of typhoon Parma.
Local government officials reported more than 100 million pesos ($2.1 million) in crop damage, particularly in rice and corn farms in Isabela and Cagayan. Continued...
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