Typhoon Kills 412 in Philippines; President Blames Illegal Logging
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As the death toll from the flooding and landslides in the northeastern Philippines rose to over 400 on Wednesday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered
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DARAGA, Philippines -- The Red Cross estimated yesterday that up to 1,000 people may have died in the typhoon that unleashed walls of black mud on entire villages in the Philippines. The country's president declared a state of national calamity.
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DARAGA, Philippines  - Villagers in the central Philippines buried hundreds of relatives and friends in mass graves on Sunday as hopes faded of finding survivors from Typhoon Durian.
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PHILIPPINES MANILA -- Typhoon Durian may have killed up to 400 people in the central Philippines after heavy rains and winds sent tons of mud and boulders the size of cars crashing onto villages, the head of the local Red Cross said yesterday. Durian, which packed winds of up to 140 miles per hour and heavy rain, moved into the ...
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Typhoon Durian may have killed up to 400 people in the central Philippines after heavy rains and winds sent mud and boulders the size of cars crashing onto villages, the head of the local Red Cross said on Friday.
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A powerful typhoon sliced through the Philippines Friday, forcing more than 160,000 people to flee their homes to higher ground even as rescuers struggled to find the missing from an earlier storm that killed more than 420 people.
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Typhoon Durian slammed into the northern  Philippines on Thursday, tearing up trees and leaving thousands  stranded, but looked set to skirt Manila as it swept to the  south of the capital of 12 million people.
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At least 36 people die in the Philippines after rains from Typhoon Durian trigger a mudslide.
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MANILA, Philippines -- A powerful storm has triggered landslides and flash floods that have killed as many as 350 people in the eastern Philippines, according to officials.
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Fresh rains and flooding have killed up to 16 people in the Philippines as a tropical storm worsened the death toll and damage from a weekend typhoon.
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MANILA -- President Arroyo vowed Saturday to make all illegal loggers pay for the deaths caused by the recent flashfloods and ordered Environment Secretary Michael Defensor to implement a total log ban and cancel all existing logging permits in the
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Tens of thousands of people spent the night in makeshift shelters as Typhoon Utor plowed through the central Philippines on Sunday, killing three and causing blackouts and cutting communication lines in the archipelago.
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At least 146 people die in the Philippines after rains from Typhoon Durian trigger mudslides.
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Up to 600 people are feared dead after storms and landslides in the Philippines, even as residents try to flee another typhoon. Rescuers trying to help flood victims before the next storm hits say they are unable to reach the areas worst affected.
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The towns of Real, Infanta and General Nakar have been hard hit by typhoon Winnie in Quezon province, Vice-Governor David Suarez told ANC Wednesday.
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REAL, Philippines  - Rescuers dug with their bare  hands Wednesday to find survivors from landslides and floods  that killed up to 600 people in a part of the northern  Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon in just over 24 hours.
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Typhoon Durian tore through the eastern Philippines on Thursday with winds of up to 139 mph, killing at least five people and cutting off power to thousands of homes, officials said.