Sunday, October 18, 2015

Typhoon leaves 2 dead and 16,000 displaced


Slow-moving Typhoon Koppu weakened after blowing ashore with fierce winds in the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, leaving at least two people dead, displacing 16,000 villagers and knocking out power in entire provinces, officials said.
Army troops and police were deployed to rescue residents trapped in flooded villages in the hard-hit provinces of Aurora, where the typhoon made landfall early Sunday, and Nueva Ecija, a nearby rice-growing province where floodwaters swamped rice farmlands at harvest time.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/super-typhoon-koppu-typhoon-leaves-2-dead-16-000-displaced-n446666

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