A girl lights candles inside a cemetery where tombs are placed on top of each other due to lack of space in Manila on Sunday. Filipinos started flocking to cemeteries to clean the grave site of their dead relatives in preparation for the observance of All Saints Day on November 1. (AP photo)
MANILA -- One of the strongest typhoons to hit the storm-prone Philippines in years battered the mountainous north late Sunday as the country braced for a possible disaster.
"Let us all pray," President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said in a message on nationwide radio as she ordered schools and government offices shut in the affected area and temporarily banned bus trips there to prevent casualties. Two major dams were to release water to prevent them from overflowing, officials said.
CEBU CITY -- After the Supreme Court junked the petition to change the Constitution by a people's initiative, Cebuano lawmakers are still keen on supporting moves to change the Charter.
MAKILALA -- Four more people died in a hospital after they were hit by a truck, bringing the death toll in the road accident to 17 in a southern town still grieving over a deadly bomb attack, an official said Sunday.
MARAWI CITY -- The US Army and the Philippine Marines distributed posters of wanted Jemaah Islamiya (JI) and Abu Sayyaf terrorists here and announced that there are cash rewards awaiting those who can give information leading to their capture.
