45 killed Death toll to expected to rise
Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae whipped the Philippines yesterday after unleashing flash floods and landslides that officials said left at least 45 people dead.
Nalgae pounded the archipelago nation's main island of Luzon with maximum winds of 95 kilometres an hour after making landfall on the sparsely populated Catanduanes island before dawn.
The destruction began well before, with heavy rain inundating mostly rural areas on the southern island of Mindanao on Thursday, followed by deadly landslides and flooding on Friday.
But officials also said the death toll could rise sharply.
"It could be more than a hundred," Lester Sinsuat, the mayor of Datu Odin Sinsuat town, told AFP when asked how many are feared dead.
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