Typhoon Parma hits Philippine coast.
Posted by
hanna on 10/3/2009, 10:06 am
(AP) - 5 hours ago
MANILA, Philippines - The government's chief forecaster says Typhoon Parma has made landfall in the northern Philippines.
The storm toppled trees and power lines in at least two provinces with powerful winds and driving rain, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.
The head of the government weather bureau, Nathaniel Cruz, says the typhoon slammed into Cagayan province at mid afternoon Saturday.
Officials say the threat of another major flooding disaster in the capital has eased because Parma is tracking farther north than earlier predicted.
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Updated 3 hours 16 minutes ago
At least three people have been killed as Typhoon Parma continues to batter the northern Philippines.
Local police and provincial officials say one man drowned after he was swept away by a strong current while trying to cross a river in San Mariano town, in the north of the Philippines' main Luzon island.
The civil defence office says another man died after falling off a roof and a two-year-old boy drowned about 400 kilometres to the south in Camarines Sur province.
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